Emir Kusturica Quotes
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.
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It is not easy for me to digest meat. I waste too much energy in digesting meat, and that's why I get my proteins from other products. I like beans and other legume plants very much. I need a lot of 'live' products such as fruit and vegetables.
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I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
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I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
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One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
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Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.
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If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.
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For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless." -Maito Gai (Naruto)
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There are plenty of millionaires who would pay millions to hang a Van Gogh painting on the wall, but hardly one that would have ever had the crazy nut over for dinner. I feel like the big companies are like that with musicians. They'll say, 'We love music! It's all about the music!' - but if a musician shows up at the door, they call security.
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I'm just a troublemaker.
