Bourne Quotes

• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  Randolph Bourne

  People, Tragedy, Scratches

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”

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• Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one

  Randolph Bourne

  Mistake, Mean, Self

  Randolph Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.133, Univ of California Press

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• We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

  Randolph Bourne

  Slave, Precaution

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”

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• People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

  Matthew Bourne

  People, Dancer, World

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• We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

  Randolph Bourne

  Quality, May, Guarding

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”

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• No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

  Randolph Bourne

  Mistake, Heart, Reflection

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• Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

  Randolph Bourne

  Anger, Society, Likes

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.133, Univ of California Press

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• I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.

  Matthew Bourne

  House, Dustbin, Bowie

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.

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• The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.

  Matthew Bourne

  Successful, Journey, Reason

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• Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things.

  Matt Damon

  Running, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

  Matt Damon

  Years, Identity, Bourne Identity

  "Matt and Ben: Hollywood's Unhappy Ending?", www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2004.

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• All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Travel, Names, Rome

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film.

  Michael Ealy

  Dream, Drama, Intelligent

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• The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

  Chris Terrio

  Years, Organization, Way

  "'Argo' Screenwriter Explains the CIA Secrets and Surprises Behind the Film". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 15, 2012.

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• There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

  Joe Wright

  Art, Political, Action

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• Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

  Tom Duff

  Shells, Examination, Littles

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• My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of drama with the covert operation, conspiracy theory spy world fascinates me and it's so interesting. It's fun to do it.

  Ali Larter

  Dream, Fun, Drama

  "Ali Larter Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2010.

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• First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy." ~Lord Bourne

  Sarah MacLean

  Long Ago, Gentleman, Ships

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• A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!

  Taylor Lautner

  Dream, Acting, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was originally set to star in 'The Bourne Identity,' but I found it too difficult to even pretend to forget who I was.

  Zach Braff

  Stars, Identity, Forget

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• I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like Bourne.

  James McAvoy

  Successful, Men, Thinking

  "James: I want to be like Matt". Details Interview, metro.co.uk. July 9, 2008.

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• He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

  Robert Ludlum

  Smart, Thinking, Jason

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.1217, Bantam

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• When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

  Shailer Mathews

  Country, History, Gone

  Shailer Mathews (2006). “The Spiritual Interpretation of History”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Twilight, Farewell

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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• Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.

  Robert Ludlum

  Pain, Recovery, Past

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.155, Bantam

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