Elia Kazan Quotes
I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
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A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it's photogenic to see him working, and the Caribbean is extremely photogenic, so poverty is photogenic, and a lot of people are photographed in their poverty, and sometimes it's kind of exploited.
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Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.
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People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'
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I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
