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 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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History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.
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Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
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Every day, we hear that somebody got saved to our music from all over the world. The music reaches people. It can encourage them. I feel like I have to do it because there's somebody out there who needs to hear the gospel.
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Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent every life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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Because of Rudy Giuliani's policies of reducing crime in New York City, tens of thousands of black men, women, and children are alive today that wouldn't have been otherwise.
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I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
