Chazz Palminteri Quotes
My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.
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My father had very little formal education.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.
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For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.
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Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.
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My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.
