"I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted……" — Emir Kusturica
"I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country."
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Emir Kusturica
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21 Quotes by Emir Kusturica
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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 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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I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks…
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More Bosnia Quotes
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Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night,…
— Morrie Schwartz
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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A lot of people have warned President Clinton that Bosnia will turn into another Vietnam, which would be embarrassing for…
— Bill Maher
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Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations…
— Edward James Olmos
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It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on…
— Jello Biafra
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In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities…
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
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In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent…
— Robert Fisk
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I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as…
— John Keegan
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Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an…
— Christiane Amanpour
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Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a…
— Jill Dando
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
— Fatos Nano
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Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air…
— Joe Bob Briggs
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