Charlie Kaufman Quotes
I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
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The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.
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I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.
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Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.
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I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.
