Antonio Gramsci Quotes
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
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In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.
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Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
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It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
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When you make a promise, keep it.
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I grew up with my mom being very, very cheap, so when it's free, I'm like, 'Oh my God, it's free - I have to take as much as I can!'
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Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.
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The whole city [Manchester] just a real rock music vibe. It reminded me a lot of where I'm from.
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I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
