Ira Sachs Quotes
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
