James Caan Quotes
I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Everyone is capable of everything.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.
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All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.
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One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
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I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
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You don't deserve this, Brian." I wanted to shove that phrase into his heart. But I knew he'd always believe that he did deserve what he got.
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I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.
