Jose Padilha Quotes
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
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You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.
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It is so unexpected, it goes beyond my wildest dreams. Sometimes I just sit back and think. 'Oh my God, I'm in the movies!' It still hasn't sunk in.
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We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.
