Bill Pullman Quotes
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
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I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.
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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!
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At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
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I wouldn't be doing this interview if I didn't like you.
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Give me to die unwitting of the day,And stricken in Life's brave heat, with senses clear!
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In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.
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Israeli Arabs must know they cannot live here and call the day of Israel's establishment the day of disaster.
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Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.
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I am more comfortable on set than I am in my own home.
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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
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The real question is whether the federal government should be in the business of redistributing wealth to equalize the economic status of every state, including states where not many people, for whatever reason, have chosen to live. That type of redistribution is a distortion of our economy.
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It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.
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I used to work for a succession of software editing companies that would have contracts with state and federal agencies. And I would be the documenter of meetings, sometimes doing limited business analysis. I began to become quite cynical about how the world works. It works on ineptitude and inefficiency and a kind of passiveness.
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I always come back to acting.
