Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 462
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Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.
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If you was bleach and I was hair, I wouldn't die (dye) fo' ya'!
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Comme tous les gens qui ne sont pas amoureux, il s'imaginait qu'on choisit la personne qu'on aime après mille délibérations et d'après des qualités et convenances diverses.
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
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I come to work, and I have a good time. I have no reason to change anything that I do.
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The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.
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If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
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A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
