Nicholas Stoller Quotes
I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big kind of rock-and-roll road trip comedy that has heart and that has hopefully you feel bad for Russell and you feel bad for Aldeus and also I wanted to surprise people with some of the turns in the movie and I think when I watched it with audiences they certainly...the reactions made me think that we did and so all that I'm just very excited about it.
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For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
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I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
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The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
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One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.
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The repercussions of the coup on nascent democracies in the Arab world will be destructive. People may soon lose faith in the democratic process, paving the way for the revival of extremist groups...The coup serves to strengthen the radicals, interrupting the course of peaceful change.
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My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.
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I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.
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Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
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I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.
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I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big kind of rock-and-roll road trip comedy that has heart and that has hopefully you feel bad for Russell and you feel bad for Aldeus and also I wanted to surprise people with some of the turns in the movie and I think when I watched it with audiences they certainly...the reactions made me think that we did and so all that I'm just very excited about it.
