Orson Welles Quotes
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.
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I grew up saying, 'I want to be famous,' but that was just the words that you used. As I got older, I understood that what I really meant was, 'I want to be successful.'
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The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
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Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
