Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

Nicolas Winding Refn

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• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Culture
  • Attention
  • Mission

• Beauty without expression is boring.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Expression
  • Boring

• Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Beauty
  • Most
  • Distress

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Beauty
  • Questions
  • Judaism

• The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Imagination

• I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Experience
  • History

• A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Up
  • World
  • Beginning

• I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Space
  • Beauty

• People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Culture
  • Modern

• I don't do very much for beauty. I use very simple things on my skin. I haven't got time. I would always get facials and then come home laden with product, and pay a lot of money and never use it. Anyway, one day a dermatologist told me to use Cetaphil to clean my face and as a moisturizer, and that's what I do.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

  

  Ouida
  • Kind
  • Beauty
  • Cruel

• I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Culture
  • England
  • Particularly

• Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • History
  • True

• A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Beauty

• I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • History
  • Culture
  • Humanity

• Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Band

• Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Humanity
  • Revolution
  • Ignorance

• I think it is very important to learn to say 'No.' I think it is sometimes important for brands or the creative director to learn to say, 'This might be on trend, but it is not right for us.'

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Important

• If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Good
  • Men
  • Long

• I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.

  

  Jesse Plemons
  • Different
  • Parents

• We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

  

  Nicolas Winding Refn
  • Culture
  • Beauty
  • Fabulous