Martin Van Buren Quotes
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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WWE doesn't owe us anything.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
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For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.
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We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.
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I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.
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I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
