Jonas Mekas Quotes
Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.
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As analytical pharmacologists, what we are allowed to see of a new molecule's properties is totally dependent on the techniques of bioassay we use.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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I did quite a lot of TV shows over the latter half of 2004 - all those 100 Greatest and 100 Worst and all that kind of stuff. So I was a little bit overexposed. But I think you need to do that once in your career, and that's how you become famous. You get overexposed once, and then people know your name and you can relax a bit.
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Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.
