Javier Bardem Quotes
You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like.
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There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
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I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
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It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
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What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.
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We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
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Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, 'Not really.'
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I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal.
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You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'
