Darren Aronofsky Quotes

I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.

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• The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Road
  • Dead
  • Lawyer

• I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Like
  • Dance

• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
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  • Bass

• I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
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• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • True
  • Today

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Artist

• When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

  

  Dan Quayle
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  • Talk

• In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Bad
  • Politics

• This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Home
  • Together
  • Earth

• As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • Dancing
  • Grandma

• When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
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  • Forever

• California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Different
  • House
  • Style

• I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Up
  • God
  • Free

• You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Up
  • King
  • England

• I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Potential
  • Ending

• I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I'm sorry - that doesn't work in business, that doesn't work in your family, it certainly doesn't work in government and our Congress.

  

  Patrick Murphy
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• Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

  

  Willard Scott
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  • Flukes

• I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?

  

  Jesmyn Ward
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  • Color

• I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
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