Emir Kusturica Quotes
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
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We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.
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I've seen the future, brother:it is murder.
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Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.
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Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.
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A government of laws, and not of men.
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No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either – although this actual person is abominably good-looking – it does not depend upon intelligence or character or – anything – as you say, it is just 'it'.
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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
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You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.
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We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass. There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.
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Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.
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I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.
