Antonio Machado Quotes
Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
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I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
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Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
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For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
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When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
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You must understand that at that time, the concentration camps were prisons where opponents of the Nazi regime were detained. Von Schuschnigg was in a concentration camp; so was Bruno Bettelheim for a time. The inmates were made to work at hard labor and lived in dreadful conditions, but they often came back from these places. Not until the 1940s did the words "concentration camp" come to stand for monstrous cruelty and almost certain death. Nobody even imagined there would one day be a death camp like Auschwitz.
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A lot of people thought I was gay.
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No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.
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Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
