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 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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Of the 16 years that I have been living in Germany, I have given myself entirely to the German art world. How am I now suddenly supposed to feel myself a foreigner?
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Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
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I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.
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...in the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
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Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
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As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.
