Emilio Estevez Quotes
If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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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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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
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Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
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If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.
