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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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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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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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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I don't really engage with that world of technology, which might be to my detriment.
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Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name.
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We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.
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I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?'
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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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.
