Terrence Malick (Terrence Frederick Malick) Quotes
When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.
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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.
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As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
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It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.
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La principale difficulté pour vulgariser la physique quantique, c'est qu'on ne sait pas très bien comment en fabriquer des images dans notre monde. C'est en ce sens qu'elle est vraiment contre-intuitive.
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We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.
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I would love to be the president of United States, and I think I would be good at it, but it's too late, and it is too hard.
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The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.
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I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.
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Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.
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Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.
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When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.
