Conrad Veidt Quotes
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I was a tomboy.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.
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I don't look like a normal congressional candidate.
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Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.
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I started very, very young to make movies - I was 21. And at the age of 27, 28, I'd done already three movies.
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In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
