- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Chattering
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it's a cocktail party, completely ignores all the finely-tuned protocols of surf that have developed over decades.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loss is universal. I've lost grandparents that I dearly adored, lost animals that were like brothers to me. Many of us have gone through terrible breakups.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first visit to the Large Hadron Collider was in April 2008, before it started up, and CERN had some open days. They were slightly shocked by the end of it because I think they got something like 50,000 visitors.
- Pretentious
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.
- Nov 07, 2020
Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody's the same. I think we're all entitled to our space, and I like to treat everybody like that.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
- Pigeons
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- Nov 07, 2020