Roland Joffe Quotes
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
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I'd date a fan as long as she didn't scream in my face.
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So now the devil's in my soul.
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Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one
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Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?
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You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.
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When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation
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In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
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Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.
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I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal, I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.
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I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
