August Spies Quotes
Can any one feel any respect for a government that accords rights only to the privileged classes, and none to the workers?
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
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If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.
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Colombians are sick of 'Narcos' stories because Colombia is a country that has changed so much. It's a country that's completely different from the country that we see in 'Narcos.' They reconstructed themselves in 25 years, which is amazing.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments and try to bring in what your gut is telling you.
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The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
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Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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"He who influences the thought of his times, influencesall the times that follow. He has made his impression oneternity. "
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A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.
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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
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Can any one feel any respect for a government that accords rights only to the privileged classes, and none to the workers?
