Lars von Trier Quotes
I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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A heroic nature is very Greek.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.
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Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?
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Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
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There is no limit to what this law can do for you; dare to believe in your own ideal; think of the ideal as an already accomplished fact.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
