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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I've been saying I really want to get a 1992 Jeep Sahara, and I'm going to paint it so it looks like the 'Jurassic Park' Jeep. I've actually seen a guy who did have a Jeep Sahara, and he did make it look like the 'Jurassic Park' Jeep. I gave him a thumbs up and said, 'You're awesome!'
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She just took off running to the old Perkins place. He couldn't help turning to watch. She ran as though it was her nature. It reminded him of the flight of wild ducks in the autumn. So smooth. The word 'beautiful' came to his mind, but he shook it away and hurried up to his house.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.
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A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.
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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.
