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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.
— Stanley Kubrick
Tags: mistake, children, learning, interest, fear, education

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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
— Stanley Kubrick
Tags: small, like, always, great, politics
Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
— Stanley Kubrick
Tags: better, job, time, you
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
— Stanley Kubrick
Tags: movies, more, feelings, music
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
— Stanley Kubrick
Tags: magic, power, hope, art
Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
— Stanley Kubrick
Tags: five, here, miserable, me
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