Andrew Kaufman Quotes
We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was no Internet at all, and now when I finish it, there will be nothing but the Internet.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer.
