Quentin Tarantino Quotes
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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Beaujolais is so underrated.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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There's a real power in heels and a good dress.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.
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Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.
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I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.
