Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
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When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
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I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
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So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.
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As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.
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This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most.
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I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
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I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
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It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.
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Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?
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All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.
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Music is to give, share.
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I like struggle.
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For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.
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I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug.
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Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.
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Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
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The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.
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Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
