Demian Bichir Quotes
'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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The media is controlled.
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I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
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I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.
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My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
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There are things you do because they feel right and they make no sense and they make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to say it was good!
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'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.
