Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.
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I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'
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I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.
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I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.
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Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?
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The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip about that because I've been making movies for 35 years, and I've played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can't be on here talking about, 'They don't give us enough roles' and diversity.
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An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
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Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
