Martin Scorsese Quotes
People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.
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A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
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Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'
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Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
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I get really nervous when people are like, 'I saw you in a trailer! I saw you on TV!' Genuinely, my cheeks get red.
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yet another example of terrorists' cynical and callous disregard for human life. On behalf of the British government, I would like to offer the people of India my support and deepest sympathy.
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I have this whole thing that when God gives you more that you have imagined, you should give it back.
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Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.
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I hate it when you really think you're getting something good... and you don't listen to your dudes when you really should.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.
