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.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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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.
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The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.
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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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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.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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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.
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Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
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I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.
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But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.
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I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.
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We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.
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All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust.
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Give a boy a dog and you've furnished him a playmate.
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We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.
