Emir Kusturica Quotes

What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.

Emir Kusturica

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• Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • Church
  • Christian

• The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • American
  • Literature

• At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Point

• My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Writing
  • Character
  • American

• On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • War
  • Morning
  • Fire

• I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Time
  • War
  • Help

• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • War
  • Free
  • Military

• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • World
  • American
  • First

• The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • Society
  • Political

• When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • American
  • America

• Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to hurl.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • American
  • Blood
  • Fake

• I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Remember
  • American
  • Air

• There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • American
  • Religion

• The man-child in American comedies is always glorified; they never really show the darker side.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • American
  • Always
  • Never

• Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

  

  Donald Pleasence
  • American
  • High

• As the commercial confrontation between free software and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere.

  

  Eben Moglen
  • War
  • Software
  • Confrontation

• This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Souls
  • Immortality
  • Human Life

• Incompetent amateurs have given prostitution a bad name.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Bad

• A strange thing happens when you are very rich, even when one’s wealth is as artificial as in our society. You develop a solipsism of sorts. The world yields itself to your will. Everything becomes your reflection, and after a while looking into your own eyes is dull.

  

  Hannu Rajaniemi
  • Society
  • Wealth
  • Artificial

• What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • American
  • War
  • Angel