Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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I like heels and make-up.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.
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I'm not a 'big picture' sort of guy. I prefer making small improvements each day.
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That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
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The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
