Elvis Mitchell Quotes
Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
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There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.
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People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.
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I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.
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I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.
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Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.
