Matthew Heineman Quotes
If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see.
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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I think growing up in the shadow of New York shaped me for life. Hey, you come from Jersey, you get used to being dumped on by the big city.
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I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.
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Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.
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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see.
