Eric Rohmer Quotes
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
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I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
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The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
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I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.
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I don't work for Donald Trump. I work with him. I work for the people who sent me up here. He ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Those people that put him and me in office expect us to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.
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I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.
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Racism... is the highest expression of the colonial system and one of the most significant features of the colonialist.
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Once dogmatism turns out the lights, you might as well close up shop as a civilization and pull up the covers as a sentient life form. You get nowhere with unquestioning certainty. It's thinking with your mind wide shut.
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The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.
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Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.
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I did a lot of musical theatre when I was younger, so I would love to go back and do that again someday.
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Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
