Asif Kapadia Quotes
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What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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Go West, young man.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll work to be that.
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I would be the worst biologist in the world!
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
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I'd call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I'm kind of chilled out, laid back.
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Cold, impossible, ahead Lifts the mountain's lovely head Whose white waterfall could bless Travellers in their last distress.
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It's the wheel of the world - turning around.
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We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.
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The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise-the carrying into practice of religious principles, and beliefs, and convictions.
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The learning process continues until the day you die.
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Some things you remember, and some you forget. Of the things you remember, you have to wonder what’s real and what’s translated into a memory from a story you heard.
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I feel a responsibility to myself, and not so much for the world at large. Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
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Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.
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That's what I love about geeks, that they can call themselves a geek and be proud of it. I love that. I even have a necklace with the word 'geek' spelled out in rhinestones, and I'm very proud, myself.
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That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
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'Amy' is somewhere in the middle of authorized and unauthorized.
