Edmund Burke Quotes
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.
Quotes to Explore
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.
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I've gotten over that by now. But I remember the first time reading the book, I was like, 'Wait, Jacob's been trying to get Bella this entire time, and he strikes out, so he goes for her child?' I was so confused. It took me a second.
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The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
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I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.
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I've tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.
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The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority.
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People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.
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By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.
