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You’ll see a lot more blood in ‘Saw’ movies or something like that than you will in either of the ‘Last House’ movies. I kind of think it owes more to ‘The Virgin Spring’ which is the original source material, the Bergman movie. Garret Dillahunt
Our nation truly owes a debt of gratitude to all who have served and sacrificed on behalf of this great country. Elise Stefanik
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. Jim Backus
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. Thomas Hardy
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. Jean Genet
In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the full amount. The lower monthly payment helps with affordability, giving stressed homeowners a break. Mark Zandi
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Edmund Burke
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. Giorgio Vasari
I feel like everybody that’s successful owes everything to God. Ray J
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. Hans Eysenck
Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest. Mark Kirk
The jambalaya of the American South owes a lot to the cuisines of the islands and western Africa, and it’s my favorite of this type of one-pot cookery. Andrew Zimmern
It’s the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance. Elian Gonzalez
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression. Ike Skelton
I don’t think baseball owes colored people anything. I don’t think colored people owe baseball anything, either. Bob Feller
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance. Jack Dempsey
Palantir owes much of its success to the amazing talent of the first 30-40 technologists who joined the company, as well as to the internal leadership that helped motivate this core group to achieve its ambitious goals and to continue to attract extraordinary people. Joe Lonsdale
Nobody owes anything to anybody. You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and if you don’t know somebody, then why would you explain to them how you live your life? Sean Hayes
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. George Washington
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself. Alexander Graham Bell
Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce. Joe Rogan
Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn’t invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt. Jimmy Iovine
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. Albert Schweitzer
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. Samuel Johnson
Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles. Giuseppe Garibaldi
I do enjoy working with Ryan although he owes me money. Colin Mochrie
Lee Daniels, even though he owes me $2 million, I picked that. I put him in business. Damon Dash
Largely this is a class thing – writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it – being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts – it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can’t just live in my head. Tony Parsons
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. Jean de La Fontaine
I wouldn’t give Charles Barkley an apology at gunpoint. He can never expect an apology from me… If anything, he owes me an apology for coming to play with his sorry, fat butt. Scottie Pippen
Succeeding in life is a difficult business – you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks. Yair Lapid
Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea. James Bryant Conant
The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn’t admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn’t just get a head start by being his father’s son – it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life. Molly Ivins
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. John D. Rockefeller
Shadow owes its birth to light. John Gay
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment. Bobby Hull
By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere – so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected. Robert Zubrin
One day I realized that I wasn’t getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free. Mary J. Blige
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper
It’s not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free. William Weld
I don’t see that anyone owes me anything for my service. I don’t feel any sense of entitlement. Dakota Meyer
When people do things for you, it’s because they want to – because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything. Harry Browne
Assad owes his continuation in power to the intervention of Russia in 2015 to prop up his regime. Peter Bergen
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care. William Penn
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was. Maria Montessori
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. John F. Kennedy
I think, visually, ‘Moon’ probably owes more to the first half of ‘Alien’ and ‘Outland’ than it does to ‘2001.’ The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL. Duncan Jones
Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power. Orison Swett Marden
The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent. Preston Sturges
I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you’ve got to get off your backside and you’ve got to do all the crap stuff, too. Jay Kay
The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering – what we now call infrastructure – than almost any other factor save topography. Martin Filler
Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in ‘Far From the Madding Crowd.’ The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts. Suzanne Collins
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. James Fenimore Cooper
The point is – that Donald Trump has been making on the campaign trail is that he’s financing his own campaign. That’s very important for him to say now in his mind because he wants people to know that he owes nobody anything other than the American people, or the voters who are picking, choosing his candidacy. Paul Manafort
‘Harry Potter’ created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That’s no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude. Gary Ross
I think ‘North by Northwest’ and ‘Rope’ and Rear Window’ and ‘Psycho’ are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone. Carlton Cuse
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me. Ivy Compton-Burnett
I found ‘Bordertown’ when I was standing on the border between childhood and my teens, and it carried me past that transition. In the process, it helped to create the next step of its own evolution: the modern urban fantasy owes a lot more to ‘Bordertown’ than many people will ever know. Seanan McGuire
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
If God doesn’t destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. Jay Leno
What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living. Harry Crews
A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol. Jack Dempsey
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. Theodor W. Adorno
I’ve always said the game owes me nothing, I owe it everything. I’m thankful I’ve been able to play it for so long. Michael Clarke
I don’t think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he does have any ideology, it owes far more to European-style National Front right-wing politics than to American conservatism. Charlie Sykes
A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything. Harry Browne
Some people feel that the world owes them a living. Clint Eastwood
God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace. William Gurnall
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some of its greatest discoveries and advances to scientists who themselves were deeply religious. Kenneth R. Miller
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry. Ralph Chaplin
My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It’s great leverage; we abuse it all the time! Matt Barr
I am uncomfortable with Sarah Palin. I have nothing against her. I’ll say she’s a very talented woman. Yet I think she owes John McCain her gratitude and loyalty. Ana Navarro
This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln’s charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan. Dave Obey
Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free. Mary J. Blige
What I’ve created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff. Tim Minchin
People didn’t know where they could trade. When everybody owes each other IOUs that can be in multiple places at once, that’s how the system couldn’t tell any more who owned what and who owed what to whom. Blockchain could have prevented 2008. Patrick M. Byrne
I’ve met so many people of my son’s generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote about ‘what you can do for your country,’ doesn’t even seem to apply to so many people. Steve Daines
America owes a debt of gratitude to all service members who have fought to preserve the freedoms we all know and cherish today. Mike Parson
All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself. Joseph P. Bradley
Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes ‘no apology’ to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless. Stephen Kinzer
A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money. Goldie Hawn
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him. Orison Swett Marden
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos owes Ohio $5.3 million for campaign finance violations, and Mike DeWine’s office refuses to collect the fine. Richard Cordray
Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it! Garrett Clayton
Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There’s almost no branch of the life sciences, in fact, that hasn’t leaned heavily on one animal or another. Sam Kean
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. Steve Buyer
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them. Guy Kawasaki
We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don’t – that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It’s insane and it’s unsustainable. Marco Rubio
Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security. Jim Ramstad
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. Douglas Haig
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. William Graham Sumner
Hey, it’s been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin’. Ain’t nobody has to give me nothin’. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don’t want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it. Don Zimmer
Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to anyone who serves honourably. I think it’s despicable that a president would put veterans on his website and list them on an enemies list. Ryan Zinke
The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics, the novel is not politically neutral; it has been a participant in history all along. Sally Rooney
Any creator owes a debt to past creation. Lukas Foss
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. Elihu Root
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. Will Rogers
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth. Jules Verne