Martin Scorsese Quotes
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
Quotes to Explore
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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It is too evident that if the drawing is bad, the color false, the deepest emotion must fail to express itself.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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Are you saying that I don't deserve love just because of the body I'm in? I wouldn't say that to you. That's horrible. I wouldn't do that to you. I deserve love. People like me deserve love because we are human.
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Gandhi was a strange guy. There was this simplistic manner; but nobody knows what it cost to provide the simple life of Mohandas Gandhi. Nobody. He traveled on a train by himself.
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We must work for a solution to address the senseless cuts that hurt our border, our economy, and our country.
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There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
