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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When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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I read certain articles about how all of the new filmmakers are immediately being given massive tentpoles, and there's a lot of original movies that we have now lost as a result of this. I don't want to call it a fad because I think it's a good thing. I think the movies are better as a result.
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I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps - I'm not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me - but to say, "I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina's wine country," it was like, who's life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.
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I just love poker players.
