Alexander Payne Quotes
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
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While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepreneur knows that success is directly related to the quality and talents of their team.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
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If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
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I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.
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When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
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We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.
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I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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When you meet a new friend, the world has more light in it, doesn't it? Things become more spontaneous, and more full of laughing and freedom and novelty.
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There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
