Andrzej Wajda Quotes
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.
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I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.
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Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are.
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In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.
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I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
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It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and ... a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services.
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Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
