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What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.

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By: Gichin Funakoshi

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Grandmaster Gichin Funakoshi is the founder of shotokan karate.

Warner Bros. to develop Howard Blum spy thriller Dark Invasion as film with Bradley Cooper

Warner Bros. has acquired Howard Blum’s upcoming book Dark Invasion and will develop it for Oscar-nominated actor Bradley Cooper, Deadline reports. The nonfiction thriller will be published by Crown on September 11, 2013, a significant date because of its content. Dark Invasion centers on what were considered the first attacks on U.S. soil since its ….

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It’s a brilliant, brilliant film, and every time I see it I can't believe the magic mixture of a great story and great acting and humour and action and suspense — wonderful cinema. The art of moving pictures is on every frame of this movie.

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By: George Lucas

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George Lucas said in a 2005 interview with The Telegraph, talking about Akira Kurosawa’s seminal epic Seven Samurai, which Lucas partially based the original Star Wars.

source: www.telegraph.co.uk,  

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We are not a deadbeat nation!

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By: Barack Obama

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President Obama commenting on Congressional Republican rhetoric about interfering with raising the 'debt ceiling' of the United States.

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I don’t want to take a while off, I want to keep working. There’s some other scripts, and I eventually want to direct, so maybe when I’m not filming, I can be directing something because I learned so much from the people that I worked with.

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By: Lindsay Lohan

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Lindsay Lohan on why she didn't make a trip to Africa after shooting The Canyons, a journey she originally said she wanted to make after the film wrapped.

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I needed time to figure out all the crap in my life that I’d created for myself, essentially, and I kind of realized, What am I doing? I like doing this. I like being here. This makes me happy. There was a line in the Elizabeth movie where she says, 'I'm so bored, I’ve never been taught what to do when I’m not working,' and I’m kind of figuring that out now.

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By: Lindsay Lohan

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Lindsay Lohan talking to a reporter near the end of shooting The Canyons, a troubled micro-budget film project shot just after making an Elizabeth Taylor movie for Lifetime. Lohan's co-star in The Canyons was porn star James Deen.

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Would you patent the Sun?

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By: Dr. Jonas Salk

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Dr. Jonas Salk said when asked by a journalist why he never applied for a patent for the world's 1st Polio vaccine, which he invented. He gave it to the world instead.

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I'm sweating like a fucking rapist!

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By: Jason Statham
Characters: Bateman
From: London
Genres: Comedy

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Jason Statham, playing Bateman, says this while standing on the balcony of an uncomfortably hot New York City loft in the 2005 Hunter Richards film London.

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It's not that I'm a Luddite and don't like technology; I've just never been interested. When I moved to L.A. in 1997, nobody really had cell phones, and I just never went down that path. And I'm in a slightly unique position because when I'm working - and I've been working pretty much continuously for the last 10 years - I'm never more than five feet from somebody who has a phone.

A lot of the things people amuse themselves with really are just toys for grown-ups, and it eats your time and pulls your concentration.

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By: Christopher Nolan

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Director Christopher Nolan (who's been at the helm of some of most technologically advanced films of his generation) talking about the reason he doesn't have an email address or a cell phone.