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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There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
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A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
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Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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The biggest challenge (for movie Agnus dei) - working in a foreign country with a predominantly Polish cast and crew - also proved to be the biggest blessing. Being surrounded by all this change, both culturally and linguistically, was a new and refreshing inspiration.
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I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.
