Luis Bunuel Quotes
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I realize that if I were in that situation - living a hard life with people telling them they're not worthy of love - maybe I would be that strong and that brave.
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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.
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The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.
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I am a gypsy, in a way. It's a condition of my profession.
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The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.
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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
