Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes

I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional way, you make it political.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: March 16, 1940

Topics

LifePoliticsStoryThinkPolitical

If you're a surfer, you just want to surf. You don't know if anyone's going to see you, and you don't really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

Jerry Seinfeld

LiveCareYouFeelingKnowWant

I remember when I first encountered anthropocentrism. I was in primary school and, in preparation for our confirmation, the class was learning about the afterlife.

John Burnside

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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Andrew Young

LearnYouLivingTalkNonsenseEven

I have never won big fights just doing one thing, being one-dimensional.

Andre Ward

DoingNeverBigOne ThingJustWon

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

Robert Morgan

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Some days it's tough, and I don't want to train my mental game, or I don't want to train my components as hard as I used to.

Max Aaron

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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

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The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Robert Duvall

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I'm sure I've changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up - as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I've changed my mind about some food that I didn't like when I was young.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

FoodExperienceMindGrowYoungUp

My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.

Louis MacNeice

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I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

Lisa Unger

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My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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