Bong Joon-ho Quotes
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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Most men are fragile.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
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The reason he liked attending rich patients rather than poor ones was the he could exercise his active imagination in prescribing for their ailments.
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To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.
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We need to transform our rural areas, restore the land to its rightful owners, and significantly grow our agricultural output.
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People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We live in homes with mirrors.
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In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.
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I try not to get too self-absorbed.
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I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.
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When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the word "councelor of public relations".
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We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.
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I regard remaking a film as creating something again.
