Martin Scorsese Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
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I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.
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What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.
