James Woods Quotes
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
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Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.
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Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.
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So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.
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I do not, therefore, need any penetrating acuteness to see what I have to do in order that my volition be morally good. Inexperienced in the course of the world, incapable of being prepared for whatever might come to pass in it, I ask myself only: can you also will that your maxim become a universal law?
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I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.
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'Well now,' he said, 'was I as good as you were when you were me?'
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All political progress has been the removal of forced and artificial relations among men, and the establishment of natural relations. Democracy is a search for natural leaders and the rights and privileges that belong to man by virtue of his manhood.
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I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
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Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
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The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.
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He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
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In restaurants we argue over which of us will pay for your funeral though the real question is whether or not I will make you immortal.
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Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.
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There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.
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When the desire ain't on me I don't need help. When it is on me I don't want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn't do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody's.
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From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.
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I just love poker players.
