Emir Kusturica Quotes

My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention.

Emir Kusturica

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• It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Control
  • Car

• I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?

  

  Wale
  • Know
  • Like
  • Person

• Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Free
  • Wish
  • Crazy

• Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • High
  • Today
  • Values

• You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Home
  • Most

• I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Acting

• The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Control
  • Alone

• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Government
  • Chance

• Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Said
  • Now

• I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Love
  • City
  • Tokyo

• Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Up
  • Lucky
  • Just

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Trying
  • Blame
  • Skinniness

• Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• I'm aware of how lucky I am. Being able to make pretty good money, and get to do a lot of fun work, and at the same time I'm not besieged by photographers.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.

  

  William Goldman
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Father

• I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

  

  Bo Derek
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Single

• One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.

  

  James Murphy
  • Up
  • Desire
  • Band

• My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • Father
  • Attention