Mike Leigh Quotes
There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this country against all the odds.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
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It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.
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After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.
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These are the rights of all human beings. They are yours wherever you are. Demand that your rulers and politicians sign and observe this declaration. If they refuse, if they quibble, they can have no place in the new free world that dawns upon mankind.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
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There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this country against all the odds.
