Jonathan Demme Quotes
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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My problem is I don't have this incredible, hip image. I'm not some flamboyant or gorgeous-looking guy who's going to sell records based on his image.
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
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A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.
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I see stereotypes as fundamental and inescapable and not as something that is... The kind of common view is "Oh, we shouldn't think in stereotypes," and I think the reality is we can't help but think in stereotypes.
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The people who will succeed fifteen years from now, the countries which will succeed, are those which are most based on a sustainable vision of the world. That is what we should be training people to do
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I've gotten used to using individual lashes as well. A lot of girls will use strip eyelashes, but the glue comes out of each side and it gets messy. Individual lashes make your eyes look bigger and much more natural.
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Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
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Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
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I was a Talking Heads fan from the very beginning.
