Bill Paxton Quotes
It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. It's not a consequence of evolutionary habituation.
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The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.
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I do things on TV that are kitchen-sink realism, which is great, but I like the challenge of a completely new language and dramatic environment.
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We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
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It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
