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If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...

Happy Decent Secure Soul
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I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

Being Certainly Environment Football
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I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Being Citizen Like Second-Class
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Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning.

Beseech Troubled Increase Dissolution
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I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

Any Director Filmmaker Had
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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Environments Escapism Fantasy Fascinated
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It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

After Day Demand Driver
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I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

About Around Away Canada
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Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.

Birth Criminal Crow Done
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I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

Always Attempt Build Engineering
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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

Doing Get Home Trying
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I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

Bad Couple Directors Front
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
After Concern Day Get
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It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

Any Efforts Enterprise Ever
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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Alone Desires Felt Free
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My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

Also Artist Electrical Engineer
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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

After Budget Camera Cheesy
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At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Any Arrested Day Had
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People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Always Because Give Giving
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

Between Disappointment Grows Hurt
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
Always Given God Me
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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Accuse Acting Being Causing
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There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

Capable Highest Hugely Least
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I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

Could Ever Felt Get
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I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.

Around Because Been Bus
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Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

About Anyway Baby Because
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I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

About Being Case Destroyed
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People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.

Am Case Course Different
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Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

Air Balls Certain Certain Point
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I don't use film cameras. I don't do visual effects the same way. We don't use miniature models; it's all CG now, creating worlds in CG. It's a completely different toolset. But the rules of storytelling are the same.

Cameras Creating Different Effects
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I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes; we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as well. It's just getting the technology - it's really more the business model than the technology piece. We've solved the technology.

About Because Believe Business
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I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

American Politics Biggest He
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I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
Against Gay Gay Marriage Get
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Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

Done Gets Reason Right
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I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

Appearing Believes Chronic Democratic
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Most of the stuff I've ever said is pretty insignificant and, by and large, has been said off the cuff and without much thought to the potential consequences.

Been Consequences Ever Has Been
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I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.

Believe Cardinal Greatly I Believe
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I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.

Bill Bill Clinton Came Clinton
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I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece.

About Away Bit Books
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Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

Bet Bill Bill Clinton Clinton
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When I was wrong about the 2002 elections, I dumped a garbage can on my head. When my John Kerry prediction didn't pan out in 2004, I smashed an egg on my face.

About Dumped Egg Elections
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I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.

Actually Church Figure Johnson
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Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.

Airport Beat Before Connection
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There are many Republicans who hardly even know a Democrat. And there are just as many, if not more, Democrats who don't know a Republican.

Democrat Democrats Even Hardly
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My high school job was putting insulation in attics - in Louisiana in the summer. It must have been 95 degrees every day, and the insulation used to get all over me. It was not fun. But I didn't know any different. It wasn't like I was spending summers on Cape Cod.

Any Been Cape Day
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I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.

Career Knew Labor Manual
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I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.

Goal Grow Grow Up I Love
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I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.

Affiliation Ask Close Convince
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I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster.
Always Broadcaster Sports Wanted
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The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war.

American Bush Disastrous Ever
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