Diogenes Quotes
He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."
Quotes to Explore
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
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I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.
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There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
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'Manhattan Love Story' has a very special place in my heart for many reasons. We were very sad to see it go. It brought me to New York, and there's nothing better than getting to go to work and fall for Analeigh Tipton every day.
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What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.
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I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.
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I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.
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'Best Man Holiday' was a very successful film.
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I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.
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I had plenty of invites and chances to party when I just started on tour, but I knew partying would prevent me from achieving my surfing potential.
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I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests.
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As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad.
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I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine, floral things. I'm not very edgy.
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Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.
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The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
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I was homeless for about 8 months, I refused to live with my dad or anyone for that matter. So I stayed somewhere that had no hot water, ever, no heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own.
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I can only do to those that come under my care, as I could have wished circumstances had permitted others to have done by me.
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It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.
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He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."
