Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes
Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to be a bust.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with Positive Mental Attitude. It is a form of self-suggestion. It is a self-motivator to success. When it becomes a part of you, you dare to aim higher.
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When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
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There is always one person in the office that you want to whip their ass! If you don't know who it is, it is probably you.
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I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.
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Marriage is a partnership between one man and one woman... Nothing could be clearer in the Bible as to what constitutes a marriage in God's sight.
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You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'
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Trust that your message is a unique one that people need to hear.
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I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.
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Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.
