Bennett Miller Quotes
One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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Action expresses priorities.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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Fuck you.
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The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
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If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.
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You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
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One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.
