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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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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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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I'm actually pretty afraid of scary movies, so I can't watch them at night, but I am a fan during the daytime!
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The world is a Bridge, pass over it, but build no houses upon it. He who hopes for a day, may hope for eternity; but the World endures but an hour. Spend it in prayer for the rest is unseen.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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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.
