Javier Bardem Quotes
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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Messengers of Peace such as Midori - and our Goodwill Ambassadors, who work directly with the UN agencies - are dedicated and well-informed and credible advocates on behalf of the United Nations. They help us educate audiences worldwide and rally support on key issues of the United Nations.
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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.
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I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
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All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.
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I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
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To be able to read and write, therefore, is to learn to profit by and take part in the greatest of human achievements - that which makes all other achievements possible -namely, the pooling of our experiences in great cooperative stores of knowledge, available
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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was - which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.
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I'm going to usher in this entire new culture of the youth, obsessed with the future.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwich.
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It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.
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The key to success is radical generosity.
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I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.
