Dennis Farina Quotes
This face is nothing to brag about. I don't know what it is that these people see in my face.
Quotes to Explore
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.
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It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?
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When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.
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I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
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I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.
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Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.
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As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.
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This face is nothing to brag about. I don't know what it is that these people see in my face.
