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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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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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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There are huge pain points experienced by parents. It's hard to find good child care options in one place. It's hard figure out things to do with your kids on the weekends or after school. It's hard to find iPad apps for your kids that you are confident are helping them learn vs. just being entertained.
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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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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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From where they stood, they could see the castle.
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I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.
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Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.
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I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
