I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
Vincent Cassel
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It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy... unless the private emolument of individuals in our navy is made superior to that in privateers, it never can become respectable; it never will become formidable. And without a respectable navy - alas, America!
John Paul Jones
AmericaNavyWillBecomeNeverLast
There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.
Stephen Kinzer
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I already visited Rwanda when I was five, but I don't really remember my roots.
Stromae
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I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.
Mathieu Amalric
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I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life. I was able to express my own deepest feelings far more than I ever could when writing for adults.
Lloyd Alexander
LifeExperienceCreativePeople
Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.
Joyce Meyer
LifeGoodJoyWrongSometimesOut
In the military, we can only do so much. The reality of it is if someone... really wants to make an impact on national security and the military as a whole... the person that has the ability to do that most is a knowledgeable civilian leader.
Jon Keyser
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Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger's, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie 'The Social' Network, the cognitive genius of exceptional ability. That's a modern definition that reduces the original meaning.
Antonio Garcia Martinez
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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
Norman MacCaig
SaidInventionWellPowersAlso
I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form - for one thing, you're able to go all-out on the imaginative front, with a lot less concern for the usual unities of time and space and character.
Richard K. Morgan
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We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.
Reuven Rivlin
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We're just moving along as quick as possible.
Mark Russell
MovingPossibleQuickAlongJust
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