Bill Paxton Quotes
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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You just have to stay positive.
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We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.
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To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
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I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.
