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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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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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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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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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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Those who act receive the prizes.
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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
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Every man is a poet when he is in love.
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And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . .
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When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.
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Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community’s values.
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I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.
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There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.
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The underworld, the old world, is the womb that gave birth to humanity. The journey from under the earth is the journey from ignorance to wisdom.
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Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.
