Martin Scorsese Quotes
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If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
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I do everything that everybody else does.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.
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A lot of people have come with 100 songs and never had the impact that I have with one, and I'm well aware of that.
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The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
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I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life, they come back in a deformed way.
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In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
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They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.
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The less our sons our trusted, the less women are able to really love them, and the more women feel entitled to use them as wallets.
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I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world - from religion to race.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.
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I would love if film doesn't disappear, if we can have film forever so we would have all these brushes, all these possibilities available.
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What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
