Terrence Malick (Terrence Frederick Malick) Quotes
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I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.
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As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
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Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
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Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
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Deep frying a Twinkie makes it healthy, right?
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The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.
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Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.
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Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.
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Everything has already been said, but not yet by everyone.
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You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world and then as adults we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.
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If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
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What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.
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We like to have things like organic beer, rather than the usual chemical filled crap. But you can’t always get that. We’re pretty normal. It goes back to what I was saying earlier about keeping your feet on the ground – as soon as you start demanding things like M&Ms with the blue ones taken out then you’ve probably entered a mad fairy world and you need a slap in the face!
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I feel excellent right now. My body is loose and my swing is where I want it to be.
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They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.
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I prefer working behind the camera.
