Anton Chekhov Quotes
There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.
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Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema.
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Thug: repeating Look, bud, I said 'Your money or your life.'
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I, for my part, do not conceive an act as having causes, and I consider myself satisfied when I have found in it not its ‘factors’ but the general themes which it organizes: for our decisions gather into new syntheses and on new occasions the leitmotif that governs our life
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There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.
