Christian Slater Quotes
I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.
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It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
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You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.
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What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?
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I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.
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I don't want to get rich - just live good.
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I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.
