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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There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
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I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.
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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."
