Joel Coen Quotes
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
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Calling on you to give up control of the outer world and gladly accept control of your inner relationship with God, devotion is essential for fully realizing your soul's calling.
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Let's be perfectly honest. I love Rock to death. We're all different people, but Rock's a showman.
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I don’t want to be special. I don’t want to look special. I’m happy with just ‘me’
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We create monsters and then we can't control them.
