So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you’re figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it’s not worth doing – it’s already done. I’m interested in finding people who I think have a voice – and a very specific voice.
BRAD PITTOnce you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
More Brad Pitt Quotes
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I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.
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The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
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I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
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Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
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I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven’t known life to be any happier.
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Yeah. And it was too much of what you shouldn’t be doing instead of what you should be doing. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. It drives me mental.
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By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.
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When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn’t a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I’m capable enough to handle any situation. There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and that I’m responsible.
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You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.
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I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.
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You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.
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I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
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I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.
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Each misstep leads to the next correct step.
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Democracy doesn’t work unless people are well informed, and I don’t know that we are. People just don’t have the time. Most people’s daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don’t have time to really study crucial issues.
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