Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.
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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
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Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
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Traffic was like a bad dog. It wasn't important to look both ways when crossing the street; it was important to not show fear.
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Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.
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When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to me now - that those items were His concern. Early on, I figured I better begin to learn how to count on myself, instead of counting on supernatural forces.
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Vivit post proelia Magnussed fortuna perit.
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When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
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Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.
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There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.
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Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.
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Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they've got some pie chart or graph behind them and they're talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that we need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman's level and what everything that she is balancing in her life - that's the way to go.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
