Joshua Oppenheimer (Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer) Quotes
We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
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I still say to myself when I am depressed and find myself forced to listen to pompous and tiresome people 'Well, I have done one thing you could never have done, and that is to have collaborated with Littlewood and Ramanujan on something like equal terms.'
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Madonna is 'a living, breathing cash register'.
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We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.
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I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches.
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We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.
