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

• 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
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• 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

• 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

• 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

• On that day I had put a ban on TV channels because they were actually provoking trouble. But it was only for one day.

  

  Narendra Modi

• The sigh that rends thy constant heartShall break thy Edwin's too.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• I think it's boring when everybody wears the same brands or the same styles, and it's like, 'Oh, this is the new trend.'

  

  Kali Uchis

• It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).

  

  James Schuyler
  • Experience
  • Mysterious

• The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its creation, its arrangement, and all of its developing processes, are not due to human planning or oversight, but to the infinite wisdom and power of God.

  

  Andrew S. Draper
  • Opportunity
  • Developing
  • Power Of God

• 'Senna' took five years, 'Amy' took three years. You try and say, 'Look, there's no deadline.' That's important. Just saying, 'We've got to make the film. And once the film's ready, it will be out there.'

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Important

• None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Taken
  • Forever
  • Secrets

• 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