Frank Langella Quotes
You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.
Frank Langella
Quotes to Explore
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I got to write most of everything I said.
R. Lee Ermey
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
Malik Bendjelloul
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
Padgett Powell
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Life is God's art.
Larry Norman
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
Oprah Winfrey
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If I arrived in Hollywood today, I would keep reminding myself not to try to make a big impression.
Irene Dunne
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It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.
C. S. Lewis
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After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
J. G. Ballard
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For Aldo to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But we are in a new time. So I'll whoop his ass in July.
Conor McGregor
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
Arthur C. Clarke
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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
Adam Smith
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When you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in (evolution) it holds everybody back, really.
Bill Nye
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Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
Blaise Pascal
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First of all, my father inspired me...he is a great social activist and women's rights activist...he spoke out. And he spoke for women's rights...that hard situation, he inspired me, because he spoke. And that's what I learned from him.
Malala Yousafzai
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The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.
Edward Boyden
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You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.
Frank Langella
