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It Is A Question In That Case Of Breaking Up One Piece Of Art, And Whether That Piece Of Art Can Be As Best As Possible Put Back Together. So It's An Argument To Say, Maybe That's One Of Those Instances, Like The Bust Of Nefertiti, I Think That Should Be Given Back [egyptian Piece Currently In Neues Museum In Berlin]. It's One Of Those Pieces You Look At And Think That Would Probably Be The Right Thing To Do.

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George Clooney

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It Is A Question In That Case Of Breaking Up One Piece Of Art, And Whether That Piece Of Art Can Be As Best As Possible Put Back Together. So It's An Argument To Say, Maybe That's One Of Those Instances, Like The Bust Of Nefertiti, I Think That Should Be Given Back [egyptian Piece Currently In Neues Museum In Berlin]. It's One Of Those Pieces You Look At And Think That Would Probably Be The Right Thing To Do.

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Important Relationships

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African American

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I've Walked With Very Famous People Down Red Carpets Over To The Crowd Of Thousands Of People, And You'll Reach Out To Shake Their Hand And They've Got A Camera In Their Hand. And They Don't Even Get Their Hand Out, Because They're Recording The Whole Time.

What You Learn After You Are 40 Is That It Is Just About Plugging Up Holes In The Boat. You Just Hope You Have Enough Corks To Plug Enough Of The Holes.

On Christmas Morning, Before We Could Open Our Christmas Presents, We Would Go To This Stranger's Home And Bring Them Presents. I Remember Helping Clean The House Up And Putting Up A Tree. My Father Believed That You Have A Responsibility To Look After Everyone Else.

The Government Itself Is Running Exactly Like The Sopranos And They Sit Back And They Make Deals. And They Say Okay, 'i'm Going Do This: France, You're Getting The Pipelines.'

Even The Idea Of A Fart Makes Me Laugh. Saying The Word 'fart' Makes Me Laugh. I Have Ifart On My Phone. I Have Remote Whoopee Cushions. Farts. To Me, There's Nothing Funnier.

You've Got To Remember That Films Don't Lead The Way. People Think That Films Are Trying To Lead Society. Mostly, They're Reflecting The Moods And Thoughts That Are Going On In The Country Or Around The World.

I Think There Are A Lot Of Great Journalists Out There. I Don't Find Much Fault In The Journalist In General; I Think Everybody Would Like To Break A Good Story.

I've Certainly Done Some Turkeys Along The Way And Made Some Dumb Choices In My Career, Mostly Early On. I'm One Of The Lucky Ones Who Got To Make A Lot Of Mistakes Very Early When No One Was Paying Attention.

There's No Connection Between Al-qaeda And Iraq.

Things Hurt Me Now. My Knees Hurt, My Back Hurts. But Your Head Still Thinks It's Twenty-three.

I'd Think,'in A Relationship, We Should Never Have His Kind Of Fight.' Then, Instead Of Figuring Out How To Make It Work, I Looked For A Way To Get Out Of It. The Truth Is, You Shouldn't Be Married If Your That Kind Of Person.

Anyone Would Be Lying If They Said They Didn't Get Lonely At Times.

I Don't Like To Share My Personal Life... It Wouldn't Be Personal If I Shared It.

You Learn From The Mistakes You Make And From The Mistakes Other People Make. The Truth Is, You Don't Learn From Success; You Learn From Failure.

Acting Is One Element In A Film. Directing Is Sort Of The Painter Using All Of Those Elements - Sound And Music And Camera And Putting It All Together. And That Can Be Fun And Exciting. If You Fail, It's Incredibly Upsetting - Much More Upsetting Than When You're An Actor. But When You Succeed It's Incredibly, Incredibly Exciting, So I Like The Risk Of It All.

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Venice Is The Prettiest City I've Ever Seen. It Looks Like A Disneyland Ride.

If We Turn Our Heads And Look Away And Hope That It Will All Disappear Then They Will - All Of Them, An Entire Generation Of People. And We Will Have Only History Left To Judge Us.

There Are Some Scenes That You Have To Lose In Order To Win Something At The End. A Good Director Will Keep Pointing You That Way, But It Is Also Your Job As An Actor To Understand That There Are Scenes That You Do, Particularly When You Are The Lead, Where Other People Get To Come In And Steal And You Have To Let Them. I Understand That But A Good Director Always Reminds You Where Those Moments Are.

It's Possible For Me To Make A Bad Movie Out Of A Good Script, But I Can't Make A Good Movie From A Bad Script.

An Acting Career Usually Has About A Shelf Life Of Ten Years Before People Get Sick Of Seeing You. It's A Good Thing To Have A Job To Fall Back On And I Really Do Enjoy Directing.

I Don't Know If Winning At Any Cost Is Wrong Or Not. There Are Times I've Thought That The End Justified The Means.

All I Will Say Is We Get Wiser As We Get Older. And That What I Am Looking For In Life Is The Same As I Always Have; Happiness, Peacefulness And Joy. And That's All I'm Going To Say About That Because Otherwise I'd Get Into Trouble

The Funniest Thing Is That All The Things Every Director Goes Through, I Thought I Could Shortcut, But There Was No Getting Around Those Issues.

I'm Not Going To Let Anyone Make It Seem Like Being Gay Is A Bad Thing.

I Was Very Lucky To Get Well Known Much Later In Life. You Need To Have Flopped Quite A Few Times To Get A Sense Of How Little Any Of It Has To Do With You.

When You Go To Detroit You See A Town That Is Resilient, That's Just Fighting To Win Again, And There's An Energy To That. Just Watching A City Really Fighting To Get Back On Its Feet And Watching The Inner Strength Of A City Is Tremendous.

I Have A Real Interest In Pushing Some Of The Limits Of Things That Studios Don't Want To Make.

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