Kalle Lasn Quotes
In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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I can't take anything seriously.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest... The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.
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In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.
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I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if you're going to get the return. There's no doubt about that. It's a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.
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Meaning is not in things but in between them.
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In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.
