Plato Quotes
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
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Self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).
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If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.
