Joshua Oppenheimer (Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer) Quotes
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
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I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.
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Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they'll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you.
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Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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The Department of Energy is a critical component of our efforts to curtail climate change; that work will be less effective unless we collaboratively rebuild confidence in the agency and its programs.
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
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At a certain moment, when I started doing my own shows, I felt it would be really interesting to know what is the history of my profession. I realized that there was no book, which was kind of a shock.
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It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.
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You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.
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I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm?
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I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.
