Elia Kazan Quotes
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
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But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!'
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Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.
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Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
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I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.
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I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.
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I don’t think they’re gaining strength, what is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq, and in Syria, they’ll come in, they’ll leave. But you don’t see this systematic march by ISIL across the terrain.
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I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
