Calvin Coolidge Quotes
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.
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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
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If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.
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College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.
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It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
