Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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I get homesick.
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I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
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I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
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Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.
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There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.
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Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.
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What's wrong with the auto industry isn't that it failed to create jobs. What's wrong is that it emphasizes jobs over general growth itself.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.
