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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They showed you a statue and told you to pray They built you a temple and locked you away But they never told you the price that you pay For things that you might have done.
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But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word.
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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
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A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.
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I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.
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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."
