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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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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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'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 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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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
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I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.
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When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
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I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
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I no longer run barefoot.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
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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.
