Vanity Quotes
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
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I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort of compelled to do it, but at the same time, it's so frightening. But I think that the things that frighten me the most in life are the things I should be doing.
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I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
