Mark Canton Quotes
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.
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Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.
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A black belt is what you prove to be, but also what it means in your heart.
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
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It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.
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You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
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Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.
