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 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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First time I ever sang was in a contest in Louisiana when I was 9. And I won yodeling.
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Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.
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I've never taken the easy route. I don't even know what that is!
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In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'
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I never say a funny thing intentionally.
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All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?
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I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.
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Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.
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When I'm on a stage, I don't feel like this dude who's sitting here drinking Amstel Lights. I'm trying to temporarily become something else that can deliver a feeling.
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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.
