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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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 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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No agency is better than its account executives.
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They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?
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I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.
