Bong Joon-ho Quotes
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.
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I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
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I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit that I don't need, and I refuse to share with others.
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My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.
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Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
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Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.
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We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies.
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I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.
