Wes Anderson Quotes
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
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I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
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If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.
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Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
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The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.
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Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.
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'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.
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I felt a sort of energy flow through me that I had never felt before — as if I was a part of something greater than myself
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The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is a true story - when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks. I played the theme from Twin Peaks on a little tiny Casio keyboard. People politely applauded. I just fell in love with that song and thought it was very heartbreaking.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.
