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Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be… — Iain Duncan Smith
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. — Susan Sontag
Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. — Steven Spielberg
I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and… — Steven Spielberg
Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything… — Leland Stanford
Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of… — James Surowiecki
I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it,… — Quentin Tarantino
I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to… — Kristin Scott Thomas
I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play. — Christopher Walken
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the… — Henry A. Wallace
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end. — Henry A. Wallace
I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did… — Eli Wallach
The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King… — Mercy Otis Warren
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and… — Adam Weishaupt
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. — Alfred North Whitehead
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. — Walt Whitman
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty. — Michel Foucault
The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed. — Nick Hornby
The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual… — Joyce Carol Oates
...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. — Chris Crutcher

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