Alex Gibney Quotes
We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
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The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.
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The world wants to like America.
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Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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We can learn from everybody, man.
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In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.
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It's not so easy to forgive.
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I grew up eating street tacos and burritos on the beach, so I like people who can eat and aren't afraid to show it.
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French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting Proust to one another, with hardly anyone else catching the references.
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A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.
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We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.
