Abderrahmane Sissako Quotes
Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
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I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.
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The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.
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By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
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After the first million, money isn't important.
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Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.
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Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.
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Søren Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, `You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith.' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.
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Some have cited race and religion as the deciding factors, allowing men who jealously guarded their liberty to obliterate the liberty of others who were of a different color and different faiths.
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Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.
