Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

Francis Ford Coppola

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One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

Jeremy Rifkin

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In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

Ann Hood

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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

Tony Gilroy

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I make our family traditions a priority.

Martina McBride

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We always think about illegal stuff moving through the border south to north, but people forget that most guns - and we're not talking small guns, we're talking heavy weapons - they get to the cartels and create literally small armies out of the cartels.

Luis Videgaray Caso

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Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

Louis Leakey

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I look at what we have - our traditional natural resource base - as helping move us to that cleaner, more diverse energy supply.

Lisa Murkowski

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The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.

Dennis Ritchie

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Pretty much from 1979 through 1988, the backbone of my career was the theater. Working on Broadway a couple of times, working off-Broadway, and also doing a lot of regional theater. Make no mistake, I lived very frugally. I had an apartment that was real cheap. I would get two or three jobs per season, and in between I'd be on unemployment.

Delroy Lindo

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If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

Brendan Coyle

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I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

Susan Powter

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