Luca Guadagnino Quotes

I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to do something significant, and we could also mention who use post-modernism in this way - maybe we shouldn't.

Luca Guadagnino

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• The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Success
  • Science
  • Religious

• Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Community
  • Better

• Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • People
  • Think
  • Trump

• 'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Kind
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• In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

  

  Kanye West
  • Paris
  • Possible
  • Land

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Think
  • Want
  • Cloud

• I don't think limits.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Limits

• I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Up
  • Children
  • Experience

• In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Service
  • Public Service

• I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • School
  • City
  • Teacher

• I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Day
  • Same
  • Nobody

• All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Good Deeds

• I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Like
  • Couple
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• The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Career
  • Education
  • Community

• Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Water
  • Church
  • Deep

• Chi parla troppo non può parlar sempre bene.

  

  Carlo Goldoni

• When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability 'fixed'-by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me-for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Learning
  • Dance

• I think I, and the audience, would enjoy a kissing scene with me and Rihanna. That would've been cool for me to see, rehearse, practice, and all that. Me and Rihanna.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Cool
  • Practice

• It is not the word that is the original material of poetry, rather the letter.

  

  Kurt Schwitters
  • Poetry

• Your subjective sense of how well you're doing under conditions of sleep deprivation is a miserable predictor of, objectively, how you actually are doing.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Sleep

• Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Language
  • Common
  • Understood

• I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to do something significant, and we could also mention who use post-modernism in this way - maybe we shouldn't.

  

  Luca Guadagnino