Michael Haneke Quotes
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I'm an iPod person.
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I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
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I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
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We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.
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My personal style is ever changing.
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If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!
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Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.
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I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
