Brian Reitzell Quotes
'Lost in Translation' was a year of my life, if not more, and then 'Marie Antoinette' was about three years of my life.
Quotes to Explore
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
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To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
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I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?
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If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.
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'Lost in Translation' was a year of my life, if not more, and then 'Marie Antoinette' was about three years of my life.
