Brett Morgen Quotes
Sometimes, you chase the moment and you can never catch it. Films take so long to make that you can never anticipate what the cultural landscape will be when the film enters the world.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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55: LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
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Clothes that are too tight make you look bigger. If you've been trying to shed pounds, and it doesn't go, buy the next size up. I never care what size my clothes are.
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Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans.
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I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.
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First time I ever sang was in a contest in Louisiana when I was 9. And I won yodeling.
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The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I firmly believe that if you follow these simple rules then you'll have a wonderfully romantic life. They're all so important when it comes to building a strong relationship, especially the very last one.
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Sometimes, you chase the moment and you can never catch it. Films take so long to make that you can never anticipate what the cultural landscape will be when the film enters the world.
