Mario Cantone Quotes
I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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My favourite moments at Dreamforce are when people come up and thank me randomly. It's a selfish time for me, as I get lots of positive feedback.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.
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In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.
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I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on the cover, and I figured I was going to read about the Egyptians. But it was this archeology. It was so dry. But I forced myself to read it because it was my first book out of the library. Should have gotten a 'Hardy Boys.'
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In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.
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Amy Lee's little brother has epilepsy, so it kind of hits close to home for me.
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I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.
