Luis Bunuel Quotes
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
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In politics, my role model would be a very weird one - our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn't ask much for himself. He was ousted from power, and he lived with the help of friends in Paris.
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
