Christian Slater Quotes
I lost myself, and a lot of characters I played, I have latched onto some of their identities just because I was so lacking in anything of my own.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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I don't take no for an answer.
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The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know anyone who does. But this is certain: too many people have lost their lives who shouldn’t have.
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Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him. But there is so often a forsaking the ways of the Lord in the hour of trial, and thus the food of faith, the means whereby our faith may be increased, is lost.
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I lost myself, and a lot of characters I played, I have latched onto some of their identities just because I was so lacking in anything of my own.
