Asif Kapadia Quotes
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.
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Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.
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I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.
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I can scare myself like a pro.
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I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
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If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
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I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.
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Be kind to yourself.
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
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As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.
