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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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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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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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
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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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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
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Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.
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I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.
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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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When I came into the gym, I wasn't just some guy. I was a two-time Olympian.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
