Peter Greenaway Quotes
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.
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I'm a major breath person, so I always have gum, mints.
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I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
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The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.
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All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.
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Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.
