Roland Joffe Quotes
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
Roland Joffe
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
Florentijn Hofman
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
Xenophon
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
Warren Spector
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
Ed Koch
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
Dan Savage
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Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.
Francesco Guicciardini
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I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves.
Kyle Abraham
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I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.
Brandy Clark
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I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
Samantha Harvey
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I grew up in a progressive household with a family that believed in equality for all, and that leaves its mark on you. In the past, I planned to go into politics and never considered Wall Street as an option.
Dan Schulman
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Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
Roland Joffe
