Brian De Palma quote: "And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous."

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong ...
BRIAN DE PALMA

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir stor...
BRIAN DE PALMA

I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
BRIAN DE PALMA

I do like directing other people's material.
BRIAN DE PALMA

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.
BRIAN DE PALMA

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.
BRIAN DE PALMA

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting ...
BRIAN DE PALMA

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't...
BRIAN DE PALMA

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these h...
BRIAN DE PALMA

And that's what's so inspirational about something like DIONYSUS. It actually records the moment tha...
BRIAN DE PALMA

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters....
BRIAN DE PALMA

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people...
BRIAN DE PALMA

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the...
BRIAN DE PALMA

It is not the story of Elizabeth Short. The movie is complicated. It's about characters who are impa...
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Sydney Pollack recorded a candid commentary on [1973's] 'The Way We Were,' ... He revealed how upset...
BRIAN DE PALMA

that won't last for long.
BRIAN DE PALMA

There aren't many cases with the mythic quality of the Dahlia. London has Jack the Ripper. America h...
BRIAN DE PALMA

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by...
BRIAN DE PALMA

Sydney Pollack recorded a candid commentary on [1973's] 'The Way We Were,' ... He revealed how upset...
BRIAN DE PALMA

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create ...
BRIAN DE PALMA

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tou...
BRIAN DE PALMA

Sydney Pollack recorded a candid commentary on [1973's] 'The Way We Were,' ... He revealed how upset...
BRIAN PALMA

There aren't many cases with the mythic quality of the Dahlia. London has Jack the Ripper. America h...
BRIAN PALMA

that won't last for long.
BRIAN PALMA

Sydney Pollack recorded a candid commentary on [1973's] 'The Way We Were,' ... He revealed how upset...
BRIAN PALMA

It is not the story of Elizabeth Short. The movie is complicated. It's about characters who are impa...
BRIAN PALMA

A 25 basis-point (one-quarter percentage point) move is very likely and is the most likely outcome.
JEFF PALMA

The data gives investors hope the Fed won't have to stay aggressive too long.
JEFF PALMA

A little sell-off today should not be surprising in front of such an important report.
JEFF PALMA

The Fed is remaining vigilant against inflation, which helps 10-year notes and 30-year bonds. But tw...
JEFF PALMA

There's a lot of focus in the bond market on oil. It's been such a hot story because of people's fea...
JEFF PALMA

A lot of today's trade is based off the stock market.
JEFF PALMA

The headline number came in a lot weaker than expected, but when you comb through all the revisions,...
JEFF PALMA

Most people think the Fed is on hold so the rest of this month's data is not quite as important.
JEFF PALMA

The market has sold off so much recently that a little consolidation in light of the coupon pass isn...
JEFF PALMA

There is no such thing as failure, only feedback. We're all equally vulnerable … backsliding hap...
PALMA POSILLICO

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books ma...
FéLIX J. PALMA

Perhaps you would have preferred it if I had not written you any letter. Perhaps you would have like...
FéLIX J. PALMA

...while finding true love was one of the most splendid things that could happen to you in life, fin...
FéLIX J. PALMA

It might even teach Murray that while finding true love was one of the most wonderful things that co...
FéLIX J. PALMA

But first you have to fight, to try other ways. If your life displeases you, my lad, try to change i...
FéLIX J. PALMA

Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream f...
FéLIX J. PALMA

Because between doing something and doing nothing, this is all I can do.
FéLIX J. PALMA

Yes, he would look for her, whether to delight in the joys of spring together or to plunge into the ...
FéLIX J. PALMA

Darwin’s folly was barking up the wrong tree.
BRIAN

Charles Darwin, and the evulation of a lie,
BRIAN

A Nationalist is a defeated Republican.
BRIAN

Chance or fate has, yes, participation in your life. But how much it happens, it's up to you.
1 MINUTO NA PALMA DA MãO

acing the difficulty, there are 2 types of people:
1 - Damn it!
2 - Challenge accepted!
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The great challenge of life is to fit our unique inner world into a shared outer world. Find our spa...
1 MINUTO NA PALMA DA MãO

There are 2 types of people on face the difficulty,:
1 - Damn it!
2 - Challenge accepted!
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Valuing your LIFE, what do you believe in? In the destination or in YOU?
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One of the most important words for interacting is MISTAKE. Because is a reaction of TRY, proposes L...
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New year, new life!" - The saying goes.

It will be?!

Often we place expectatio...
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Making a difference is a point of view. For a universe, you can be a simple individual. But for some...
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Our greatest heritage is intangible.
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Although complex, life is simple. It is individual.

Living is the challenge. It is intera...
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The future is a dark cave. So focus on the now, where it steps. Make of faith the spark that illumin...
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What happiness?

Here we have a kind of what they call a multiple choice question.
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Hey, people ... Do not complain about walking on a Monday if you stayed in folded arms on a Sunday.
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The meaning of life? Is feel! Increase that sound! Tickle someone! Enjoy the warmth of the sun! Go a...
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Life is made of MOMENTS. From the beginning to the end of EXISTENCE. But not everything that happens...
1 MINUTO NA PALMA DA MãO

Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD

The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND

Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU

There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD

We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE

Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES

There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE

To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA

Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON

I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
DE KNUDSON

I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about ...
DE KNUDSON

Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
DE HEARN

It was a good education for the students.
DE HEARN

We wanted the students to recognize and participate in the unique history of Wall. Students should h...
DE HEARN

All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD

One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
DE CASSERES

How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! Ho...
DE SURIN

It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE

Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY

The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great dea...
BRIAN GREENE

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
BRIAN GREENE

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i...
BRIAN GREENE

Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus...
BRIAN GREENE

Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t...
BRIAN GREENE

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab...
BRIAN GREENE

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na...
BRIAN GREENE

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
BRIAN GREENE

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ...
BRIAN GREENE

There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo...
BRIAN GREENE

My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s...
BRIAN GREENE

I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...
BRIAN GREENE

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans...
BRIAN GREENE

The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
BRIAN GREENE

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE

String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
BRIAN MAY

I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
BRIAN MCKNIGHT

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case w...
BRIAN ENO

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
BRIAN MAY

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and your...
BRIAN KOSLOW

Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or ...
BRIAN GRAZER

I get depressed when the sun is clouded over. It affects me.
BRIAN WILDSMITH

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
BRIAN CELIO

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.
BRIAN MAY

I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE

You never know how they're going to play out, but 'Pork and Beans' definitely had the sa...
BRIAN BELL

We live in a strange bubble.
BRIAN MOLKO

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO

I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to...
BRIAN DENNEHY

Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Fac...
BRIAN ACTON

The person with the most contacts does not win a prize. Number of friends, likes or fans is only mea...
BRIAN BASILICO

Social networking can also have a negative effect on relationships when you only treat people as pot...
BRIAN BASILICO

It's the transformation that drives me. I want to do it all and never want to be boxed into some...
BRIAN TEE

I don't know a single Republican in Montana who would get in a fight in a bowling alley for John...
BRIAN SCHWEITZER

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, ther...
BRIAN ENO

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shud...
BRIAN LUMLEY

Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both.
BRIAN CELIO

It's surprising, but a lot of times we've had really talented running backs so once you get down to ...
BRIAN CARTER

Hopefully we'll get a chance to make some plays around the end zone and we can get in there.
BRIAN CARTER

It's a fascinating book about what it takes to be a scientist.
BRIAN CARTER

It can't compare to Harmon. The lighting is so much better, the footing is better and the surface is...
BRIAN CARTER

We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams li...
BRIAN CARTER

I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearin...
BRIAN SKERRY

I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Holl...
BRIAN ENO

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the...
BRIAN HUSKEY

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc...
BRIAN JACQUES

The sight of burnt orange makes me puke.
BRIAN BOSWORTH

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability t...
BRIAN WILSON

Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.
BRIAN TRACY

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
BRIAN TRACY

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future...
BRIAN TRACY

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really...
BRIAN TRACY

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active...
BRIAN TRACY

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
BRIAN PICKRELL

I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the ...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL

I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've...
BRIAN WILSON

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
BRIAN TRACY

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.
BRIAN FERRY

It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at...
BRIAN BAUMGARTNER

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on ...
BRIAN MOLKO

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is alway...
BRIAN ENO

I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if yo...
BRIAN GRAZER

It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.
BRIAN MCKNIGHT

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
BRIAN COX

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highro...
BRIAN TRACY

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, activ...
BRIAN ENO

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
BRIAN TRACY

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really...
BRIAN TRACY

Coming off that Pennington game, he had a little extra incentive against Hamilton. Taylor was ahead ...
BRIAN CARTER

They all stayed together and they have a good chemistry. We saw it coming.
BRIAN CARTER

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
BRIAN TRACY

The Future belongs to the competent get good, get better, be the best !
BRIAN TRACY

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
BRIAN TRACY

Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit ...
BRIAN JACQUES

I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.

It is hard to forget,...
BRIAN ANDREAS

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
BRIAN TRACY

You may not remember the time you let me go first.
Or the time you dropped back to tell me it ...
BRIAN ANDREAS

We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the ...
BRIAN ANDREAS

As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians i...
BRIAN SELZNICK

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magi...
BRIAN SELZNICK

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred word...
BRIAN ANDREAS

If you want to thrive, you need to sow the seeds of self-development.
BRIAN BUFFINI

A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants r...
BRIAN HWANG

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
BRIAN TRACY

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a wor...
BRIAN TRACY

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used thr...
BRIAN TRACY

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.
BRIAN HAYS

If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.
BRIAN HAYS

It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in ...
BRIAN FRIEL

The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and ...
BRIAN TRACY

The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
BRIAN HWANG

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen fo...
BRIAN MOORE

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active....
BRIAN TRACY

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

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And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

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