What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.


Octavia Spencer

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HERBERT SPENCER
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
SPENCER JOHNSON
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
SPENCER TRACY
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.
HENRY SPENCER
We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5.
HENRY SPENCER
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCER
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homoge...
HERBERT SPENCER
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
HERBERT SPENCER
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
HERBERT SPENCER
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments an...
HERBERT SPENCER
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCER
Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
HERBERT SPENCER
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples ...
SPENCER SILVER
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
SPENCER JOHNSON
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no...
HERBERT SPENCER
Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can b...
SPENCER ABRAHAM
However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best hi...
SPENCER BACHUS
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling ...
SPENCER BACHUS
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
HERBERT SPENCER
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogen...
HERBERT SPENCER
I've been learning how to shoot a gun and properly handcuff people so that on the day I need to ...
SPENCER GRAMMER
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
HERBERT SPENCER
Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride...
ABIGAIL SPENCER
I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and '90s music to Dave Matthews.
SPENCER BOLDMAN
Sometimes people wonder why aeroplanes are so cheap and rockets are so expensive. Even the most supe...
HENRY SPENCER
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This i...
JOHN SPENCER
When I was ten, I loved movies like 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Roman Holiday.' When I wat...
SPENCER BOLDMAN
I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I need...
SPENCER JOHNSON
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical mora...
HERBERT SPENCER
Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one w...
SPENCER GRAMMER
I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they ...
CHASKE SPENCER
'Greek' is basically a show about sororities and fraternities. It follows Casey Cartwright, ...
SPENCER GRAMMER
I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of p...
SPENCER GRAMMER
Liquid oxygen is one of the cheapest manufactured substances on Earth. In large quantities, it costs...
HENRY SPENCER
I can be a goofball sometimes. I love having a good time and being carefree.
SPENCER BOLDMAN
My dad has an incredible passion for living life, and he's really, really funny, so he definitel...
SPENCER GRAMMER
The failure of woman to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effor...
ANNA SPENCER
A successful woman preacher was once asked "what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the mi...
ANNA SPENCER
It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for...
ANNA SPENCER
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may ...
ANNA SPENCER
I think it's good to have him here because he has that intensity and attitude we need. We will all b...
ANTHONY SPENCER
That's what coach Williams brings to this group: Intensity. He has that hard-nosed attitude.
ANTHONY SPENCER
Coach Williams has been great for us because he is about intensity. Technique is another thing he st...
ANTHONY SPENCER
Akron has a running game. It didn't seem that way because when they tried it early on we stopped it.
ANTHONY SPENCER
Stop the run and make them pass. That is how we are operating on defense right now.
ANTHONY SPENCER