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“I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.”
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“You know how it is. Every time you kiss someone else, in a way you always remember that very first time.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“It's easy to get young gay men to tickle each other, right? Let's come up with a challenge: Let's get heterosexual men. How do we do that? We make it a competition, because then it's not gay. That explains the antipathy behind the gay-journalist comment.”
Source : "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.
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“Nothing is easier than self-deceit.”
Source : Demosthenes (2015). “Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)”, p.73, Delphi Classics
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“Sitting in the darkness of the cinema, I got to see another world. This imaginary world was a refuge for many of us. Of course, the films were controlled and censored by the regime. But I still thought, around this time, that maybe making films would be good for me. I thought of expressing myself through this medium, and of doing something for the Kurds. The options were clear: either I'd work as a lawyer under the Baath regime or make movies independently.”
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“No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].”
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“Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.”
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“they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly”