James Caan Quotes
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.
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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
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When I realized that you can't necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west.
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True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
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I rodeo-ed for nine years. That's my other life.
