Mike Figgis Quotes
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
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Too often, companies focus on systems and structures that facilitate cultural change at the mid-management level, overlooking problems closer to the top.
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I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.
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I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.
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What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.
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The worst dog gets the best bone.
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I'm trying to create a body of work that sort of represents something, and has something to say. Hopefully, I'll have a career that, 20 years from now, I'll look back and I'll have told the world about a slice of New York that they wouldn't have known about.
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My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
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When your situation has gone beyond the power of nature, it has become a curse. Who can remove a curse but Jesus Christ?
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My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.
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The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.
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Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.
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A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
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When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.
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If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
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No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.
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I had no plans to be a director.
