Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
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I studied philosophy at Columbia, then dropped out to do drama at the Lee Strasberg Institute.
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Afterwards, when Clavain tried to imaging how he might describe it, he found that words were never going to be adequate for the task. And that was no surprise: evolution had shaped language to convey many concepts, but going from a single to a networked topology of self was not amongst them.
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I hope I will be remembered as a good father and a fair employer. And a good host, of course!
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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
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However firmly thou holdest to thy opinions, if truth appears on the opposite side, throw down thy arms at once.
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The meaning of religious truth is hope.
