Eli Roth Quotes
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.
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It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.
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I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
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It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
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We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.
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I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
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I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.
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I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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When you're 65, you're surprised by what turns you on.
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Early in my career, I was really spoiled with a beautiful project. I got such a good start that I thought, 'Why would I ever take a step back?' Why would I take on something that wasn't meaningful - to me, if nobody else - and powerful and groundbreaking?
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It seems that whenever America faced a challenge, it faced it and overcame it.
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I feel so sorry for those poor men sitting up there all day. They must be so cold.
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Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.
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Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.
