Jon Oringer Quotes
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I became an air display pilot. I used to teach it. I was an examiner for a few years as well. It was great fun. I would still be doing it now if pretty much everyone I knew who was doing it hadn't died. In the first team I joined there were six people in it. By the time I stopped, there was only me and one other left - everyone else had died.
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When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.
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I am spiritual. I believe God loves and is pulling for all of us.
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Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
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Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.
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Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
