Todd Haynes Quotes

I'm always interested in what classic crime writers got into when they stepped away from the genre stuff they were known for. That's why 'Mildred Pierce' is like noir without any real crime.

Todd Haynes

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I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.

John C. Calhoun

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Once you're in a network, you can do a whole bunch of things to that network. It's just that NSA doesn't have the authority to do that.

Michael Hayden

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Ability is a poor man's wealth.

John Wooden

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We're impressed by people who don't know what can't be done.

Steve Jurvetson

PeopleKnowDoneWhoImpressed

I was there for the making of Young Winston, but guns kept going off. I went 'Waaaaah,' and someone said, 'Please get the child off the set.'

Amanda Foreman

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Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed.

Steve Albini

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Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

Simon Raven

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I am not a heavy drinker, I've never taken a drug in my life, but I am prone to a pizza.

Tony Bellew

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I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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I am undoubtedly one of the more, if not the most, privileged undocumented immigrants in America. And for us at Define American, which is this culture campaign group that I founded with some friends, culture trumps politics.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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I don't dislike people; I love people.

Jonathan Franzen

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I'm just a product of the '90s, to be honest.

Jon Bellion

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