Bob Balaban Quotes
Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
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Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.
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If you're going to educate the public and tell them how things happen in the courtroom, then you really owe them the duty to do it right. Don't misinform.
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Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.
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There is something sinister that stems from the fact that freedom and tolerance are so often separated from truth. This is fuelled by the notion, widely held today, that there are no absolute truths to guide our lives. Relativism, by indiscriminately giving value to practically everything, has made 'experience' all-important.
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I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.
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Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
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Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.
