Martin Scorsese Quotes
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.
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I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.
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Bring together what is good for business with what is good for the world.
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The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
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'What is my identity?' 'Nothing,' said the Master. 'You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?' said the incredulous disciple. 'Nothing that can be labeled.' said the Master.
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London does two things for me: it makes me feel connected, and it also makes me feel very isolated and quite lonely at times, and that's someone with two children in their family.
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When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
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I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.
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There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.
