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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Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion.
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Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god.
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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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It's the best thing that's happened for many years. I was a young man the last time we won the Ashes. When English sport is good, the country feels good.
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You could be winning and feel like you're losing because the scorecard you're using is unfair.
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She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.
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Always know your merit and how special you are, and don't let someone else's qualifications make you feel small. If you stick to this, you will always deserve their respect.
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The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
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I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
