Javier Bardem Quotes
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.
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I think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. The US is the Western empire of the 19th century regrouping in the 20th, not out of wickedness, but because everybody else in Eurasia was so completely destroyed by the Second World War. Economically, that was quite a useful time for the US, so they ended up in the position of enormous power. And like any great power, they're going to act in their own interests. The problem is due to what the business community wants, which is to make as much money as they can out of what other people do and pay as little as possible for it.
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Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.
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We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.
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SM Seaside City Cebu: soon to be the Philippines' Largest Mall and the 4th Largest in the World
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I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
