Noureddine Morceli Quotes
I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
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There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.
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Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
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Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good-only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.
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When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.
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I grew up in Georgia, so I grew up listening to the Allman Brothers.
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I was about three years old when I started playing in Venezuela with my two older brothers. They're 12 and 11 years older, so I was always the little one.
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And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
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I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.
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Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?
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While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
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I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.
