Joel Coen Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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I don't read the critics.
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
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I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.
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Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated.
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I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day.
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I think that I appeal to the girliness in all of us.
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I wouldn't have been surprised if they had voted me Most Likely To Kill Everyone At A High School Dance.
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Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.
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I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.
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To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.
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They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilisation which we have already attained.
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So many have come to me that I might serve them, leaving me no time to think of myself. However, I assure you that I do feel deep down within me, God be praised.
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I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.
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I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.
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Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
