Neill Blomkamp Quotes
I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.
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I think there are always going to be people who say, even if they are engaged in the movie, they just want it to move faster.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.
