Jim Jarmusch Quotes
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Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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I do get around. Geographically, that is.
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I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
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I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
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There may be circumstances in which damaging our relationship with countries over human rights is counterproductive and the benefits to human rights may be very small because of our limited capacity to enforce our stance. That was the dilemma the United States faced after Tiananmen Square.
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Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.
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With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.
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'Try to avoid painting in places where they still point at aeroplanes.'
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Maybe my face is edgy, but that's because it's the face of somebody who's seen life.
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Look at my track record: All of the big hits we created in Holland worked globally.
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The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
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I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest, my heart beating even though I wished it wasn't.
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Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.
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I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
