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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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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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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Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.
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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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I never pass up the chance to shop at vintage stores.
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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 don't play in any tournaments to come second best.
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When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, 'Of course you are.' And I'm like 'No,' not, 'Of course I am.' In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime: everybody there is like, 'I was on this reality show; I'm an actor.' It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.
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One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.
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I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew.
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You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.
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For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.
