Democritus Quotes
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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People trash talk me.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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On YouTube, when you have a big viral success with a song that isn't your own, the natural inclination for most YouTubers is to keep doing that. What you really should do is show people that you actually have substance and can write your own music.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
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People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
