Dennis Hopper Quotes
Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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As a leader, you get a pat on the back when you make a hard choice.
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Although, at times, soccer is a challenge to mind, body, and spirit, fundamentally, the progression of the U.S. women's game and those who play it reflects a distinctively American culture, rooted in our struggle, shared aspiration, hard work and self-determination.
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I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.
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Sickle cell does not have the priority in this country that it had in the 1960s, when I started working on it. Congress has been cutting everything that wasn't nailed down.
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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
