Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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I am a just man.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
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Once more I hear the everlasting seaBreathing beneath the mountain's fragrant breast
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Every villain has their belief system that makes perfect sense to them.
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More and more, I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
