- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
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- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worried that people wouldn't like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me, those are moments that are incredibly joyful.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.
- Nov 07, 2020
But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My crash and burn over drugs and alcohol is very well known; I've never, ever hidden that story. If there are people who would not vote for me because of that history, I understand.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the life of me, I cannot understand Clinton and her proposed across-the-board tax hikes on individuals, businesses and investors. I cannot fathom her plans for increased regulatory burdens, which include more government-run healthcare and a halt to the fossil-fuel energy boom.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a person who has a hard time saying no, and it gets me into trouble because I sometimes overreach.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pat Buchanan attacks me as 'worshipping at the church of GDP.' But in a CNBC 'Kudlow and Company interview', I reminded him that I also worship at the church of Catholic Mass, as do the vast majority of the Mexican immigrants.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the Pence-Hutchinson immigration reform idea is not perfect, it does represent a useful discussion point for future action. As diplomatically and kindly as possible, with all the greatest respect for differing points of view, let me just say that the Tancredo-Buchanan attack on Mike Pence is nuttier than a fruitcake.
- Greatest Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is freedom that makes this the greatest country in the world. And it is freedom that so frequently keeps me on the optimistic side of life.
- Endowed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, freedom.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020