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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'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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Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
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I helped my dad do landscaping from when I was 14, and then every summer when I'd come home for college, I'd play on a travel baseball team, but during the day, I'd do landscaping.
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
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I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
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I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.
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In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.
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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.
