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"Sometimes little things can prolong an experience in a way that you run over budget. It's very scientific; a lot of people don't understand the science that goes behind making a film."
"Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer."
"Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away."
"Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that."
"If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood."
"Why must I run against a Negro? We have had enough of Negroes running against and fighting with each other. The better bet is that we would put a Muslim candidate in the field against a devil, somebody who is against all we stand for."
"The same as in a German neighborhood, the stores are run by Germans, and in a Chinese neighborhood they're run by Chinese. In the negro neighborhood the businesses should be owned and operated by Negroes and, thereby, they would be creating employment for Negroes."
"Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people."
"If I go home and someone, and my child has blood running down her leg and someone tells me that a snake bit her, I'm going out and kill the snake. And when I find the snake, I'm not going to look and see if he has blood on his jaws."
"I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do."
"In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year."
"Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way."
"Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's home TV receiver?"
"We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period."
"On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an extraordinarily skewed distribution system, substituting medium-run threats for short-term threats for the majority of the world's population, particularly the 50 to 80 percent at the bottom."
"They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape."
"To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life."
"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."
"I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride."
"The spirits run riot in youth."
