George A. Romero Quotes
For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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My biggest concern with the whole deal with 'Total Divas' and with WWE - and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff - I don't want to live my life to entertain other people.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.
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If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.
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I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.
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Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.
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Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.
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I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
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So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
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Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
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He's just really unlikely as a hero - which makes him so brilliant, I think, because he's like this mad professor.
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I created myself, and I'll attack anybody I feel like.
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When I visit schools, I try to reach kids who perhaps don't have books at home or aren't that keen on reading. Somehow you draw them in with the pictures and then perhaps they'll want to learn more about it. I use a lot of audience participation and find kids who aren't really part of it and try to include them - to draw in those reluctant readers.
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You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.
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Stewardship of our air and water is a responsibility that should be free of the bias of politics. What's more, environmental regulators should abide by the law.
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My daughter came to us last night and insisted we contribute in some way to Earth Day.
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For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.
