Sydney Pollack Quotes

I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory.

Sydney Pollack

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 1, 1934 - May 26, 2008

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I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

Jim McKay

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In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

Ji-Hae Park

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I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

Jo Brand

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Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

Jerry Seinfeld

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I'm an addict for underwear.

Jennifer Ellison

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If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

Ann Landers

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When we talk about the things at Airbnb that are challenging and that they are going to have to overcome, the parallels with eBay are across the board. It's community management. It's making sure the marketplace is in balance - the right amount of buyers and sellers.

Jeff Jordan

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I always had a dream to someday own an NBA team.

Stan Kroenke

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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

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I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

Russell Crowe

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Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

Moby

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It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

Jonah Hill

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