Bong Joon-ho Quotes
The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.
Quotes to Explore
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.
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No woman wants to have fat ankles.
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I enjoy scaring people too much to let it go!
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When I began my practice, I said I'm going to be a pediatrician that really thinks about and understands a child's educational trajectory.
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You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'
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The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.
