Marlon Brando Quotes
On the day Kazan showed me the completed picture I was so depressed by my performance that I got up and left the screening room.
Quotes to Explore
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
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People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. That argues for doing one of two things. Finding your passion and pursuing it. Or becoming passionate about what you're already pursuing.
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On the day Kazan showed me the completed picture I was so depressed by my performance that I got up and left the screening room.
