Anton Corbijn Quotes

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.

Anton Corbijn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: May 20, 1955

Topics

FatherGodManThinkYouWant

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

Andrea Barrett

New ThingsEasyDiscoverySometimes

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

Andrea Bocelli

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I love the idea that we're going to be genderless and boundaryless in the future.

Amy Landecker

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Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident.

Steve Erickson

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It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

Roger Ebert

PeopleGroupRecklessGeneralizations

I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then.

Roy Bennett

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I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.

Lucas Papademos

I AmPeopleThinkAchieveWayMore

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

Jonny Greenwood

MusicListeningDoingAnythingQuite

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

Bonnie Raitt

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There is a set of emotions around money and new technology and advertising and that sort of thing, and there is this kind of changing, transforming way we go through the world happening. The lyrical eye, the perspective of poetry, can get to something like this when other forms of writing can't.

Alissa Quart

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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

LifeFutureLivePastBetterLearn

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

Pete Rose

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