Filho Quotes

#1. Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.

Tom Robbins

#2. Do not waste your life over working.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

Wangari Maathai

#4. Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

Alex Garland

#5. I knew from the age of four that I wanted to preach. I didn't even consider it strange that grown people were listening to this kid preaching until I was around thirteen. I have never believed in limitations.

Al Sharpton

#6. Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

Janelle Monae

#7. It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

Phoebe Snow

#8. Sometimes you are working and you feel like walking out into the terrace, stretching, looking out and feeling the night air on your face.

Kleber Mendonca Filho

#9. Adrian, I'm on a date. Why are you here? On my car?

Richelle Mead

#10. It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Friedrich Schiller

#11. The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Christopher Nolan

#12. Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

Dexter Gordon

#13. I'd asked girls out and they'd turn me down, and so finally it got to the place where you didn't want to be rejected. And so you just didn't ask.

Bob Packwood

#14. Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this because is so organic to the process.

Kleber Mendonca Filho

#15. I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Eric Greitens

#16. I've seen a lot of Brazilian films and most times I kind of react negatively, because of the way I think they portray places they don't really know or care about. This is something that I specifically tried to avoid in my films.

Kleber Mendonca Filho

#17. If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.

Rob Payne

#18. Pull a thread here and you'll find it's attached to the rest of the world.

Nadeem Aslam