Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
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I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.
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How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.
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'The Little Mermaid' changed my life.
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If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
