Ed Harris Quotes
If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.
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Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
