Apichatpong Weerasethakul Quotes
It's like we are underground, in a cemetery....the sky is the earth... We are hibernating, sleeping all the time and we don't know it. We are dreaming that there is plenty of oxygen.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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Valuation is what people are willing to pay.
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'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make.
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Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.
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God, beam me up!
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To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
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I'm strictly for Adlai Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you man, he knows the most.
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Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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p. 96
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In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.
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If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.
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Couples in their 30s are having trouble having kids. And you just kind of extrapolate that and say, 'What if it happened to everybody? What kind of society would it be like if all of a sudden we knew that this was the end of the line - we couldn't have kids?'
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It's a lot of pressure. Some of the cast wants a StairMaster on the set so you can work out like crazy before your naked scene.
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The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.
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This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.
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Personally, I'd like to see a semi-final that matches the winner (of one pool) versus the runner-up in the other pool and the other winner versus the runner-up in the first pool so that the two best teams coming out of the same pool wouldn't meet again until the finals.
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Reading is good, action is better.
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Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.
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It's like we are underground, in a cemetery....the sky is the earth... We are hibernating, sleeping all the time and we don't know it. We are dreaming that there is plenty of oxygen.
