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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What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth. So too in religion we are repelled by that confident theological doctrine... but we need not turn aside from the measure of light that comes into our experience showing us a Way through the unseen world.
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It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
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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.
