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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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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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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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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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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Renoir is a great success on the Salon; I think he is 'launched'. All the better! It's a very hard life, being poor.
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I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day.
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We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them.
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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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Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
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That is what a very Christian message is: to care about each other and to help those who need it the most.
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We didn't need a guy to go get 20. That's not what we need. No one needs to be Daryll Hill.
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Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
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Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
