Samuel Goldwyn, nome artístico de Samuel Goldfish foi um produtor de filmes norte-americano nascido na Polônia. Foi um dos fundadores da Paramount . Criou a Goldwyn , que, por fusão, tornou-se a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer em 1924.
“Quem tem entusiasmo por seu trabalho não precisa temer nada na vida.”
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
citado em "Our elderly Americans: challenge and response : proceedings ..." - página 73, Converse College, Spartanburg, S.C., South ... - 1967 - 109 páginas
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“Deus faz as estrelas. Eu só as produzo.”
God makes stars. I just produce them.
citado em "True Confessions" - págian 257, Jon Winokur - Plume, 1993, ISBN 0452270014, 9780452270015 - 293 páginas
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“Esse é o tipo de anúncio que eu gosto. Fatos, fatos, fatos.”
That is the kind of ad I like. Facts, facts, facts.
Por Arthur Marx, "Goldwyn. Uma Biografia do Man Behind the Myth", 1976, capítulo 16
“O roubo é uma instituição estável num mundo instável.”
Samuel Goldwyn citado em Cinema cativo: reflexões sobre a miséria do cinema nacional - página 41 e 55, Ipojuca Pontes - EMW Editores, 1987 - 133 páginas
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“Um hospital não é lugar para se estar doente.”
A Hospital is no place to be sick.
citado em "Goldwyn: a biography of the man behind the myth" - página 297, Arthur Marx - Ballantine Books, 1977, ISBN 0345255550, 9780345255556 - 494 páginas
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“Se eu pudesse cair morto agora, eu seria o mais feliz o homem vivo.”
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
citado em "More on oxymoron" - página 193, Patrick Hughes - Penguin Books, 1983, ISBN 0140067868, 9780140067866 - 205 páginas
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I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth — even though it costs him his job.
citado em "C&U: Volume 41" - página 30, American Association of Collegiate Registrars, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers - The Association, 1966
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“Flashbacks são coisas do passado.”
Flashbacks are a thing of the past.
citado em "The classically American comedy of Larry Gelbart" - página 215, Jay Malarcher - Scarecrow Press, 2003, ISBN 0810847728, 9780810847729 - 295 páginas
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“Se eu olhar confuso é porque eu estou pensando.”
If I look confused it's because I'm thinking
citado em "Smalltalk with style", Edward J. Klimas, Suzanne Skublics, David A Thomas - Prentice Hall, 1996, ISBN 0131655493, 9780131655492 - 127 páginas
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“É absolutamente impossível, mas tem possibilidades.”
It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
citado em "Foolish Words: The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken", Laura Ward - Sterling, 2003, ISBN 1856486982, 9781856486989 - 256 páginas
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From success you get lots of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
citado em "Wisdom Through the Ages: Book Two" - Página 173, Helen Granat - Trafford, 2003, ISBN 1412001161, 9781412001168 - 281 páginas
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“I read part of it all the way through.”
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 42.
Misattributed
“We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.”
Alternately reported as "We can get all the Indians we need at the reservoir", in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 40.
Misattributed
“The next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself.”
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 41-42.
Misattributed
“Anyone who would go to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined!”
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 42. A similar quote appears in the landmark book by Hollingshead and Redlich, ``Social Class and Mental Illness (1958), p. 237: The old saw, "Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined," is applicable here.
Misattributed
“If you have a message, call western union.”
The popular attribution to Goldwyn is false according to his biographer in A. Scott Berg, Goldwyn: A Biography (1998). The earliest known print attribution is to Moss Hart in Van Wert (Ohio) Times Bulletin (26 August 1954) as cited in Fred Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006). Also attributed to Humphrey Bogart in Stephen Humphrey Bogart, Bogart: In Search of My Father (1995), and to Ernest Hemingway in James R. Mellow, Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences (1992).
Misattributed
“I can answer you in two words: im-possible!”
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 40.
Misattributed
Quoted by Alva Johnston in The Great Goldwyn http://books.google.com/books?id=xU9AAAAAIAAJ&q=%22too+caustic%22+%22To+hell+with+the+cost%22+%22If+it's+a+good+picture+we'll+make+it%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage (1937)
“Our comedies are not to be laughed at.”
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 38-39.
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“Gentlemen, include me out. (or just "Include me out.")”
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 40.
Misattributed
“A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.”
A misreporting of an actual quote praising the trustworthiness of a colleague: "His verbal contract is worth more than the paper it's written on". The identity of the colleague is variously reported as Joseph M. Schenk in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 42, or as Joseph L. Mankiewicz in Carol Easton, The Search for Sam Goldwyn (1976). Goldwyn himself was reportedly aware of - and pleased by - the misattribution.
Misattributed
“I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.”
Quoted in Arthur Marx, Goldwyn: The Man Behind the Myth (1976), prologue
or just "Include me out."
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 40.
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