Alan Mak Quotes
I like shooting movies in Thailand very much because the government is so cooperative there. The police help you to close the roads for shooting.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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One thing that's really pulled me in to helping artists create their album is that I get to help them tell a story. It's about the way you frame that story and finding the best way to tell that story.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I am not the best. I don't have to be. I am enough.
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I like shooting movies in Thailand very much because the government is so cooperative there. The police help you to close the roads for shooting.
