Joshua Oppenheimer (Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer) Quotes
I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Grease is the only cure for a hangover.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.
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I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
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We're really reducing the potential inflow, not cutting it off.
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My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.
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I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
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It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit.
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If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.
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I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess.
