Emir Kusturica Quotes
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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I'm a firm believer in time. I know a lot of people don't believe in time like I do, but I think time heals and kind of reveals all for me.
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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
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Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
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My songs are about who I am.
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If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.
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I'm not anti-American. I was raised to love both sides.
