Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I am a Buddhist.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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There is no doubt that the majority of Kansas Citians are happy with their three-terminal airport. I will advocate in Washington for our city to keep its unique airport as long as we want it.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
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Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.
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To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
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I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't know if that has anything to do with.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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Something may have happened before, and yet this thing that happened just after may be so important that you don't even know about the thing that happened before and when you tell your story to yourself, or to someone else, it's going to be told not on the basis necessarily of the time course, but rather on the basis of how it was valued by you.
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I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.
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A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.