Jonathan Demme Quotes

I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation over the years. Endlessly, he's sung about the stuff that I really care about. He's put into words the feelings that hit you at different transitional moments in life.

Jonathan Demme

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 22, 1944 - April 26, 2017

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What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left.

Jeh Johnson

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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Andre Gide

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The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Maureen Murphy

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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

John Updike

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I love yoga. I'll film a class with my teacher, bring my mat with me, and just do it anywhere.

Stella Maxwell

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If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

Steven Spielberg

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It's difficult in the Premier League.

Riyad Mahrez

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Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

Russell Means

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I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it.

Mike D

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In Bollywood, on an average, movies are made in six months or a year, but Puri completed 'Loafer' in two months.

Disha Patani

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Why tell a story that people have seen 900 times? That's not interesting artistically.

Dede Gardner

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The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

Colin Quinn

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