Emir Kusturica Quotes

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

Emir Kusturica

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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Information

• For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Time
  • Like
  • Games

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

• I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • End
  • See
  • Special

• Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Hand

• I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.

  

  Vanity
  • Like
  • Making
  • Musical

• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Tea

• My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Business
  • Like
  • Deal

• I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Reading

• When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Art

• Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Talk

• God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Countries
  • Notion

• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Society
  • Group
  • Selfishness

• Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • America
  • Army
  • Economy

• It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Trying
  • Character
  • America

• Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Power
  • Man
  • Slavery

• I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.

  

  David Lindsay-Abaire
  • People
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don’t know. But - but I’ll tell you what. That will be a horrible day. If - if Hillary gets to put her judges - right now, we’re tied. You see what’s going on.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • She

• The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Science
  • Education
  • Lost

• When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car.

  

  Jenson Button
  • Feeling
  • Car
  • Driving

• I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • People
  • Up
  • City