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"I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie."
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"The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich."
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"The current Republican Party is not really the Republican Party. It's been hijacked by this group that is not just Islamophobic but, really, xenophobic. They believe in sort of white, middle America, gun-toting - it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people."
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"Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy."
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"Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all."
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"I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle."
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"So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves."
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"You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall."
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"All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt."
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"What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people."
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"I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants."
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"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."
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"All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year."
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"When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near."
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"It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you."
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"As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't."
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"Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look."
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"With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible."
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"I'm the guy, I'm kind of like the, uh, Everyman, so I think people just relate to that."
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"It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself."
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"People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band."
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"One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way."
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"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."
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"The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth."
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"Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor."
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"Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it."
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"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."
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"My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!"
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"Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself."
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"I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful."
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"The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit."
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"You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head."
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"I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion."
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"Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine."
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