Robert Redford Quotes
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Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.
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Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.
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I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.
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I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.
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The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.
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The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.
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Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it.
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What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
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We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We're the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.
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If you could ever do a project that really has magic in it, and justifiable magic, you should do it.
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He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
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In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.
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The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.
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When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.
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I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.
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I guess there are different ways to handle success. You can multiply it financially and use it to multiply your net worth. That's always been very appealing to me.
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I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.
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What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.
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Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
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Essentially, my kids grew up with the emphasis on the environment because I became a political activist in about 1969 and it was not an easy time. Those were the days when the oil and gas companies pretty much controlled the show and anybody speaking about solar energy or carbon energy would get smashed down as being a radical or a tree-hugger or what have you. So I was out there feeling very often alone and my kids would get that.
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I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.
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The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.
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I've always wanted to try new things because it's exciting and it keeps you active and alive.
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You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.
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Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.
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It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.
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Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.
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Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.
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Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.
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Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.
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