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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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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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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Religion is induced insanity.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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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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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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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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If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.
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An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
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We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.
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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.
