Dylan Minnette Quotes
Everyone's like, 'Oh my God, can I ask you something? You were in 'Percy Jackson,' right?' I'm like, 'No, different guy.'
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.
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All propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas . . . Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea upon the memory of a crowd.
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Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
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I went to a presentation that showed that three-quarters of the streams in the western part of the state no longer flow.
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Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh my God, can I ask you something? You were in 'Percy Jackson,' right?' I'm like, 'No, different guy.'
