Bong Joon-ho Quotes
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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Things are expensive, very expensive in Israel for many reasons. One of the reasons is our ports. It's a monopoly. They run very poorly. And we have ships that are stuck in the ocean for three or four days or a week, and all that cost is transferred to the products and the consumer.
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I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.
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AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.
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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.
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We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.
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One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'
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You need ego but mine is not blinding.
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But the gospel doesn't need a coalition devoted to keeping the wrong people out. It needs a family of sinners, saved by grace, committed to tearing down the walls, throwing open the doors, and shouting, "Welcome! There's bread and wine. Come eat with us and talk." This isn't a kingdom for the worthy; it's a kingdom for the hungry.
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In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.