Christian Slater Quotes
I'm not a great card player. Keeping my cards close has always been a challenge for me.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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Fair use is not in the law.
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Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a homosexual who wants to be a heterosexual - that's close to unchangeable. And a transsexual - say a man who believes he's really a woman in a man's body - is completely unchangeable; you'd have to change the body to conform to the psyche.
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If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.
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If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
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I'm not a great card player. Keeping my cards close has always been a challenge for me.
