Jay Chiat Quotes
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.
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Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas - would be made on the backs of black immigrants, people from Africa and the Caribbean who deserve these policies to remain intact as some of the few legal tools they have to immigrate to this country.
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Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.
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Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
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I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland.
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Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.
