Empire Quotes
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America now stands as the world`s foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that co...
Senator John Kerry
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Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn`t hear the barbarians coming.
Garrison Keillor
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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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(on the 1976 remake of King Kong): "I was 15 when that film came out. I took the day off school, went into Wellington and was first in line to see it. It was a disappointment because I wanted it to have stop-motion animation, dinosaurs and the Empire Stat...
Peter Jackson
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On dealing with the resulting media attention of Empire of the Sun (1987) at age 13: "It was horrific. I was almost crying in interviews and running away during press conferences, pretending I was going to the bathroom and just disappearing."
Christian Bale
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Realism is always subjective in film. There`s no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it`s not really cinema ...
Crispin Glover
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Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer. [One people, one empire, one leader]
Adolf Hitler
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He is one of the best. He`s outwitted the empire on numerous occaisons, and he has made some very fast deals. One of his problems is that he gambles quite heavily and that`s where he loses most of his money. He`s tough and sharp, but never manages to scra...
George Lucas
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If a director comes in from California and doesn`t know the city at all, he picks the Empire State Building and all the postcard shots, and that, of course, isn`t the city.
Sidney Lumet
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On the sudden fame that resulted after_Empire of the Sun (1987)_: "I enjoyed making the film, but I was shocked when I received all the attention when I got home to Bournemouth. Girls were all over me, boys wanted to fight me, and I was being asked to ope...
Christian Bale
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He`s quite the gentleman, Obi-Wan. But I don`t think he`d have any problems pulling if he wanted to. You know, as a Jedi, he`s not allowed to fall in love or get involved with that. So I suppose by now, he`s just got really big balls. Empire Magazine June...
Ewan McGregor
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Every time I`m in New York I say a little prayer when passing the Empire State Building. A good friend of mine died up there.
Fay Wray
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[on his being made a CBE] Being a Commander of the British Empire isn`t really what it`s cracked up to be, since I can`t command anybody. Everyone always ignores me.
Sting
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I feel like I`ve been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
Steven Spielberg
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I turned down the OBE because it`s not a club you want to join when you look at the villains who`ve got it. It`s all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploit...
Ken Loach
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I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It`s such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and I`ve been able to stay a float. I think the next logical step in my career would be to start my own filmmaking empire like [Harvey Weinstei...
Ben Affleck
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When I`m in New York. I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me, or is it vice versa? (in 1969 interview with the New York Times)
Fay Wray
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A mate of mine told me recently, `It`s the first time I`ve seen you work, Worthington.` I thought that was quite funny, but he was right. [Empire magazine, October 2006]
Sam Worthington
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On his 2002 Empire Award: "I think my mum will have [my award] in pride of place somewhere beside my grandmother on the mantelpiece."
Orlando Bloom
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George felt that it was just and proper. When he made Empire, we hadn`t met, and he didn`t have a particular idea of who would play the Emperor or how the character would develop. And he had no notion that he would do the back-story - Episodes I, II, and ...
Ian McDiarmid
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Describing the filming of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980): "Mark [Hamill] was off on Dagobah while Harrison [Ford] and I were were getting drunk in Cloud City."
Carrie Fisher
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He is his own man, he is not a son anymore, he is an equal. - describing Luke Skywalker after his duel with Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
George Lucas
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We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, false or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners, persecutors of heretics and from men who, in our eyes, just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to...
Alec Guinness
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With Heaven`s aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you
Genghis Khan
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What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.
Andre Nel
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Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
Robert Trout
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We journeyed through ancient China by traveling along the Silk Road on a CD simulation. The girls learned how the 7,000-mile route opened trade between the Far East and the West and connected ancient China to the Roman Empire.
Antonia Mosqueda
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Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.
Allan Cribbins
