Roberto Unger Quotes
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
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I don't have one favourite spot - I love writing anywhere that I feel inspired. I have to admit that I do love getting cosy in bed or under blankets on the sofa and writing from there.
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Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
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Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.
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People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.
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I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.
