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Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

Francis Ford Coppola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: April 7, 1939

Topics

Good Children Want Remembered Really

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Life Happiness Spiritual Generation

I didn't start drag because I thought it would be a ticket to anything. I did it for my own narcissistic fulfilment. When I started selling records, going on tour, doing TV... I never expected any of it.

Start Thought Doing Selling My Own

At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

Tears Problem You Find Run Right

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.

Michael Lomenda

Opportunity Oil Up Little Fields

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

Slavery Defeat Teach Up Standing

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

Evil Society Problem Prejudice More

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Ideas Obstacles Impossible Reach

Aly Raisman doesn't have a podcast - but she should!

Jonathan Van Ness

In our culture, good looks are so important, and today he'd head straight for a plastic surgeon, but in Cyrano's time, the nose was who he was, and it didn't matter that he was a brilliant poet, a brilliant swordsman, a brilliant man. His nose defined him.

Good Today Time Culture Man Looks

Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

Today Health People Insurance Right

There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

Anxiety Real Existential Social Just

Luke Skywalker, right now, is the last Jedi. There's always wiggle room in these movies - everything is from a certain point of view - but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi.

Story View Point Of View Now Movies

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