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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Those who have never fought suppose that the deserter who flies the field is consumed by shame. He is not, or he would not desert; with only trifling exceptions, battles are fought by cowards afraid to run.
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I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.
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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.
