Dejan Stojanovic Quotes

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

Dejan Stojanovic

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• The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'

  

  M.I.A.
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• Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Nature
  • Alone
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• I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Good
  • Fun
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• We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

  

  Zev Yaroslavsky
  • Done
  • Easy
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• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  

  Victor Garber
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• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
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• If you have a dream, it's definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Sacrifice

• Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Light
  • Responsibility

• I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Government
  • Environment

• I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Always

• It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Life
  • Love
  • Experience

• The less explaining you do the less people speculate.

  

  Mary Violet Heberden
  • People

• If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Up
  • Parents

• We all seek purpose in life. Most of us wonder how we can make a positive difference during our brief time on earth. But asking and doing are different things.

  

  Mac Anderson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Duck

• I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

  

  Serge Gainsbourg
  • Beauty
  • Ugliness

• All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Nature
  • Pictures
  • Habits

• My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Eternity
  • Human being
  • Idealism

• Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

  

  Dejan Stojanovic
  • Eternity
  • Rather
  • Knighthood