Michael Haneke Quotes
If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.
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When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.
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It only takes sparks to light a fire
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If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.
