"I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing……" — Emir Kusturica
"I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive."
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Emir Kusturica
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21 Quotes by Emir Kusturica
Emir Kusturica has 21 quotes on this site.
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My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world…
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My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250…
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I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.
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I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.
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In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is…
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Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.
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I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.
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I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade…
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I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.
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Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe…
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You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in…
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I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death.…
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More Bosnian Quotes
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one of 10 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
— Paddy Ashdown
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I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge…
— Michael Ignatieff
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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.
— Adnan
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Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether…
— Josip Broz Tito
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and…
— Janine di Giovanni
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A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a…
— John Pomfret
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I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.
— John Pomfret
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For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army,…
— John Pomfret
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