Martin Scorsese Quotes

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.

Martin Scorsese

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HeartPeopleResolveOutLeaveStay

During the day, I really don't wear much makeup.

Andreja Pejic

DayMakeupWearMuchReally

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

Maurice Sendak

TimeTrustChildYouKnowBelieving

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

Matt Taibbi

FamilyMoneyBudgetDieDebtSize

Cancer affects everyone, and it's up to all of us to support the important research that can one day make a much sought-after cure a reality.

Angie Harmon

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The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.

John Updike

LiveTimePeopleFaceYouPlot

I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are.

Amy Cuddy

GoodSmartPeopleEnoughValuesWho

Every day, do small gestures of generosity! It does not mean go to Cambodia. Do it at home. If you do nothing at home, evil becomes normal.

Rithy Panh

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The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person is the objectified passive element - there to help the creative, active, often male part of the duo to create. A muse is very passive. Who wants a muse? I don't want a muse.

Luca Guadagnino

CreativeMeSpeakHelpAlienCreate

America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

Bono

BusyAmericaCountryRealJustIdea

I want to go on TV to perform. I'm not conceited, but I am good at what I do. It's just the vehicles are not there anymore.

Bobby Davro

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I'm not one of those playwrights who says, 'Show up, hit your marks, and don't talk to me!' I always want to hear from the other artists involved, whether it's the director, the lighting tech, or the actors.

Pearl Cleage

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I'm half Puerto Rican.

Nick Woodman

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