Hal Hartley Quotes
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.
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You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.
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At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She's a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight.
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Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
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There's a misconception that maybe I'm overly confident or a little vapid or that I am a stereotypical, bratty, spoiled girl who doesn't have much to bring to the table other than how people perceive her physically.
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Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.
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I wonder if there is anything to discover.
