Charles Marion Russell Quotes
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for 18 months. I don't like to interrupt her.
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A man has two primary drives in early adulthood: one toward power, success, and accomplishment; the other toward love, companionship, and sex. Half of life then was out of order. To go before them was to stand up as a man and admit that I was only half a man.
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I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
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If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class. It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.
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From Lee: I believe that the mind may make its own immortality : thought is the spiritual part of existence ; and so long as my mind influences others, so long as my thoughts remain behind, so long shall my spirit be conscious and immortal. The body may perish-not so the essence which survives in the living and lasting page.
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The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.
