Quentin Tarantino Quotes
I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that it happened and that's why I feel we need to deal with it.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
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All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.
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I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.
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Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'
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Broadway, in my opinion, is a microcosm of America. Those challenges that we have in our country, I think we still have those challenges on the Broadway stage. I think there are far too few African-American directors working on Broadway.
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I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that it happened and that's why I feel we need to deal with it.
