Brad Pitt Quotes
I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.
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I think Mel Gibson could make 'Passion of the Christ' because he really believed in it and gave it his all.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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Everyone in heaven will be fully blessed, but not everyone will be equally blessed. Every believer's cup will be full and running over, but not everyone's cup will be the same size. We determine in time what our capacity for appreciating God will be in eternity.
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I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'
