Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes

I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!

Bernardo Bertolucci

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• After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • Children
  • School

• As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Kind
  • Sucker

• My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Time
  • Great
  • Dad

• There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • First
  • Four
  • My Own

• Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Yourself
  • Doing
  • Excuses

• I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Up
  • Business
  • Father

• I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.

  Gail Devers
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Medication

• The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Question
  • Idea

• She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.

  

  Laura Riding
  • People
  • She
  • Knowledge

• Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Why
  • Stop

• A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Soul
  • Lost
  • Garden

• The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Question

• Beware:IgnoranceProtects itselfIgnorancePromotes suspicion.SuspicionEngenders fear.Fear quails,Irrational and blind,Or fear looms,Defiant and closed.Blind, closed,Suspicious, afraid,IgnoranceProtects itself,And protected,Ignorance grows.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Fear
  • Ignorance

• There is no conservative party left in Washington. Conservative thinkers and writers who were to be the watchdogs of orthodoxy have been as vigilant in policing party deviations from principle as was Cardinal Law in collaring the predator-priests of the Boston archdiocese.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Law
  • Party

• One can only blaspheme if one believes.

  

  W. H. Auden

• ...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.

  

  Larry Wall

• My favorite part of running is the thinking time.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Running

• In my 20s, I used to have a lot more energy! I was this skydiving, bungee-jumping adrenaline junkie. I don't know what happened to me! Now that I'm in my early 30s, I've put all that energy into my work, although I'm still a little ridiculous. In your 30s, you're sensible enough to know better, but still stupid enough to do stupid things.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Stupid

• Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Imagination
  • Story
  • Facts

• Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Prove
  • Convince
  • Journalist

• I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci