Stanley Kubrick Quotes

The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
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The truth of a thing is the feel of it not the think of it.
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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
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The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.
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I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.
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However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space? Those of us who are forced by their own sensibilities to view their lives in this perspective — who recognize that there is no purpose they can comprehend and that amidst a countless myriad of stars their existence goes unknown and unchronicled — can fall prey all too easily to the ultimate anomie. The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache.
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The purpose of bayonet training is to awaken your killer instincts. The killer instinct will make you strong. If the meek ever inherit the earth the strong will take it away from them. The weak exist to be devoured by the strong. Every Marine must pack his own gear. Every Marine must be the instrument of his own salvation.
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If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.
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The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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Observation is a dying art.
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I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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