Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

Francis Ford Coppola

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I had to steal to survive.

Jesse Jackson

SurviveStealTo SurviveHad

Beyond diversity, the story of Obama's influence on the courts is more complex. Indeed, it could serve as a metaphor for his Presidency: symbolically rich but substantively hazy. Obama took office after years of intense conservative focus on the courts.

Jeffrey Toobin

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I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

Maynard James Keenan

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

John Henry Patterson

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Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Robert Greene

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Catwoman isn't a 'joiner.' She's a solo operator. She isn't naturally heroic; she's fairly selfish.

Ann Nocenti

SelfishSheSoloOperatorHeroic

It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.

Jeff Goodell

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I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.

Michael Douglas

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Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.

Meredith Monk

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As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

Stephen Hawking

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I always write my first draft in longhand, in lined notebooks. I move around the house, sitting where I like, and watch the words spool out in front of me, actually taking a lot of pleasure in the way they look in my strange handwriting on the page.

Sue Miller

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I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

Silvio Berlusconi

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