Marco Polo Quotes
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Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
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I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.
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I don't eat sugar. I eat fruit.
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I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.
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A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.
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Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
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It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.
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I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.
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There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.
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And so border security is not simply preventing people from getting in, but very often preventing somebody from leaving for the wrong reasons.
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I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.
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Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.
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I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.
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People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?
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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.
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There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.
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The plate is in fair territory and the player never left the plate. It hit off the plate and stayed right on it. He's got to run. I teach my players to run out everything. If they hit it, they have to run. That was just a mistake and he's got to know to run on that.
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Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.
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Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.
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I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.
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I have not told the half of what I saw.
