Martin Scorsese Quotes
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
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Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .
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Bitcoin is my baby; it's my whole world and my whole life. It's what I was put on this earth to do.
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Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
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It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
