Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
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Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
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What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.
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Whence come night and flood? How they disappear? Whither flies night from day; And how is it not seen?
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Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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On March 5, I will behead Rafael dos Anjos. I will drag his head through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, through a parade of people I'd imagine. It will become a national holiday also I would imagine.
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The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
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To continue down the path of comprehensiveness, Wikipedia will need to sustain the astonishing mass fervor of its birth years. Will that be possible? No one knows.
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To me, Scorpio was a big bet and a quantum leap in the kind of sophistication of our products. People forget that, apart from the Bolero and the Armada, until the nineties we never made hard-top vehicles.
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Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.
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James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.
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I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.
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People aren't suckers. Some are, perhaps. But most people inside know when we're being lied to.
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I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
