Jehane Noujaim Quotes
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart; we can look after each other better than we do today.
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I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should reach them. I find now that God's gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that is not a question of growing taller, but of stooping lower and that we have to go down, always down to get His best ones.
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Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.
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Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
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When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
