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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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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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'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'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.
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I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
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A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.
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I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
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I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
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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.
