Cornelius Vanderbilt Quotes
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.
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I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.
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Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
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Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.
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Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
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I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.
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Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
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He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.
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If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
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To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
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He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
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Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it.
