Saws Quotes - Page 2

• I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Happiness, Brain, Weakness

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• Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Trying, Novelists, Stories

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• If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Interesting, Swim, Thames

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.

  Laurence Fishburne

  People, Guy, Faces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Country, Countries Of The World, Perfect

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• It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

  John Mahoney

  Sister, War, United States

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• I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

  John Davis Long

  War, Gun, Men

  John Davis Long (1956). “Journal”

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• I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Cinema, Lasts, Remember

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• As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

  Boris Pasternak

  World, Planning, Wonderful

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• When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

  Forest Whitaker

  Movie, Kids, Car

  Oscar Acceptance Address for Best Actor in a Leading Role, delivered 25 February 2007, Hollywood, CA

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• When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

  Thomas Clarkson

  Government, Desire, Firsts

  Thomas Clarkson (1787). “An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species: Particularly the African, Translated from a Latin Dissertation, which was Honoured with the First Prize, in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions. [One Line from Livy]”, p.52

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• Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

  Henry Flynt

  Art, Taste, Kind

  "Towards An Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 8, 1989.

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• I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

  Scott Putesky

  Tools, Use, Metals

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• If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Running

  Charles Barkley, Roy S. Johnson (1993). “Outrageous!”

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  Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher

  "New York Post" Newspaper, June 24, 1965.

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  I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar

  Sports, Latin, Bad Ass

  Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars.

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• I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

  Diogenes

  Children, Drinking, Hands

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• And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.

  Black Elk

  Flames, Color, Rainbow

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

  Paul Getty

  Art, Architecture, Fine

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• 'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Book, Cinema, Film

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• I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Nice, Government, America

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• If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

  John Sayles

  Writing, Next Day, Roger

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• I'm really into sci-fi. The reason I'm an actor is because of Star Wars - I saw that and I knew that's what I wanted to do. But most of the projects I'm offered as an actor are straightforward dramas, so I haven't really been given a chance to do that kind of role.

  Ricky Schroder

  Stars, War, Drama

  "Q&A – Rick Schroder (Blood Done Sign My Name) Loves Sci-Fi Movies and Fast Zombies". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.

  Howard Schultz

  Country, People, Connections

  "Coffee talk: Katie Couric interviews Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz tonight". Interview with Katie Couric, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 8, 2008.

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• People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

  Lisa See

  People, Tests, Lasts

  "Lisa See: Best-selling Author Talks Female Friendships, Adapting Her Novel To Film". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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