- 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.
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- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like New York.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to keep busy.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.
- Take
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
- Franklin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie's going to look like.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.
- Nov 07, 2020
With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was 'Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.'
- Try
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.
- Nov 07, 2020
I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.
- Good Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good writing is like a windowpane.
- Economic Development
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- Nov 07, 2020