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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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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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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Et primo ferri motu prosternite mundum;sitque palam, quas tot duxit Pompeius in urbemcurribus, unius gentes non esse triumphi.
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It's a weird thing about our business: You give everything you have, and there are moments where you go back and forth in your mind about if what you're doing is brilliant or a total disaster.
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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
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Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.
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The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.
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Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
