Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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I can't go to war with paparazzi.
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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
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I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.
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I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!
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We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'
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If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.
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It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?
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I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.
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For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely to make the yoke comfortable. Where some have power, others do not, and the two classes persist. A free society is where all have power-power over and responsibility for their own lives, power and reason to respect the lives of others. This is also a society without classes, a society of human beings, not rulers and the ruled.
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Being in the movie School of Rock was really cool. Sometimes we had to do takes over, but Jack always kept us going. He was fun.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
