Alain Resnais Quotes
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
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Peoples of European descent are not only in a relative but a real decline. They are aging, dying, disappearing. This is the existential crisis of the West.
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Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done.
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In my view, Obamacare is the most existential threat to our economy than anything we've ever had since the Great Depression, so I think a little bit of additional deficit is nothing compared to delaying if not repealing Obamacare.
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It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
