Philip Kaufman Quotes

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Philip Kaufman

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• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

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• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

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• Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

  

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• I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.

  

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• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  

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• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

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• You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.

  

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• Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

  

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• It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  

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• I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.

  

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• I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love.

  

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• Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

  

  Philip Kaufman
  • Death