Sam Ewing Quotes
Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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My band and I are even closer. They've grown with me over four years, so we're closer and closer and closer.
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I remember watching the '96 Olympics. For some reason, I was like 'Oh yeah, I'm going to go to the Olympics some day.' At that time as a kid, I did not know for what sport or really anything.
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Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
