Martin Scorsese Quotes

Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.

Martin Scorsese

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If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

Jim Parrack

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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

Meg Cabot

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I always thought I was more of a mommy's boy, because she was charming, talkative, a great storyteller. But as I dug back into my past, I realized I am exactly like my father on so many levels, although I never thought I inherited anything from him.

Robert Lepage

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I think Jeff Hornacek is a very, very good basketball coach and an outstanding person.

Jeff Van Gundy

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To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

Michael Caine

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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

Ambrose Bierce

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I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you've got two kids, to start a coffee shop.

Tom Peters

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He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

Robert Barclay

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Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.

Mickey Rooney

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My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.

Christopher Buckley

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