Emir Kusturica Quotes

I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.

Emir Kusturica

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• I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Great
  • Home
  • Responsibility

• My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Me
  • Values
  • Influence

• I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Value
  • Never
  • Say

• Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Time
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• I always like to sing barefoot.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Like
  • Always
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• I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Freedom

• When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • God
  • Man
  • Strong

• Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Important
  • Character

• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Famous
  • Quiet

• I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Brain

• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Political
  • Wise
  • Successful

• Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Lyrics

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Towel

• In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Long
  • Money
  • Business

• Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a top-notch ski resort. It has some of the best bowl tree skiing in the world and breathtaking views of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille.

  

  Nate Holland
  • World
  • Heart
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• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Art
  • Envy
  • Blessings

• I grew up as a man because I was by myself.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • Up

• (Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Peace
  • Nice
  • Sleep

• 'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

  

  Austin Farrer
  • Life
  • Power
  • Death

• The one thing I don't understand is war.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • War
  • Understand
  • Thing

• The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

  

  John Keble

• I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • War
  • Peace
  • Wall