James Woods Quotes
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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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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It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.
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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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I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.
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Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it.
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I was champion soprano of Sussex when I was 16!
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It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.
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People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?
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I just love poker players.
