Martin Scorsese Quotes
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
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Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
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The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
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Armani is a fashion house that I think is iconic and beautiful.
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I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time.
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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.
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On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.
