Jonathan Demme Quotes
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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We have evidence that a number of Bahrainis who oppose our government are being trained in Syria. I have seen the files and we have notified the Syrian authorities, but they deny any involvement.
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Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
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I never pass up the chance to shop at vintage stores.
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Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
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'Who are you? Nobody. Who is Porridge? THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON THERE IS.'
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Security, stability and prosperity will depend on the application of the multi-sum security principle that captures the multi-dimensional aspects of security and insists on the centrality of global justice for lasting security.
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A crown and justice? Night and day Shall first be yoked together.
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Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'
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You need a long-term coach to be able to win.
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I always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like I'm going to do more than just headphones eventually, but we want to wake the world up right now with this.
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I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.
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Bad literature is a form of treason.
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A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.
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Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
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Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
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Drank a lot of take home pay.
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I'm guided by my enthusiasm.
