Philip Kaufman Quotes
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately, so are most Americans.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.
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And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.
