Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 23, 1974

Topics

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From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

Jim Morris

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I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.

Anna Faris

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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Meryl Streep

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I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.

River Phoenix

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Hollywood is an image. We project these fantasies on to it, but people are just people.

Riz Ahmed

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I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

Lisa Unger

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Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.

Johnny Flynn

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We need to put our priority on protecting this exceptional way of life.

Chris Gibson

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Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

Christie Brinkley

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Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.

Bonnie Bassler

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I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don't think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

Alice Munro

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