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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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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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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You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.
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Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?
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Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
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The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.
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I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of... trying to appear what I thought was normal.
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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.
