Martin Sheen Quotes
We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.
Quotes to Explore
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.
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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
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One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.
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I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.
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It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.
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We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.
