Luciano Vincenzoni Quotes
Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.
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I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background music or doing a soundtrack or wanting to be in a band or writing the song, or writing your own songs. And then comedy is a very black and white thing. You want to make people happy.
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If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'
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Media gatekeepers - editors, publishers, film studios and the like - need to begin investing in talent behind the scenes, developing and resourcing marginalized voices to tell their own stories. At the end of the day, it's about the story and what will enable the audience to truly see, understand, and know the life and times of the subject.
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I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
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Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.
