Michael Pitt Quotes
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.
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Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.
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I've been doing this for 33 years, and sometimes you make movies and nobody cares. But when people care, it's the greatest thing in the world - even when it's passionately against the title - because it's going to start a conversation.
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Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?
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My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
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One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful.
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The Holy Land... What an experience. I will never forget this day.
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Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.
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I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.
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I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.
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When people go at war they cheapen things.
