Javier Bardem Quotes
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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My first car was a motorcycle.
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Accept loss forever.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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There is always more information than attention.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure it's a smooth transition. I believe we still need places where people can go to handle, hold and talk about books, get information about what books are out there, and so on.
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To legislation... the Puritans resorted. Instead of guiding, they repressed, and thus pitted themselves against the unconquerable impulses of human nature. Believing that nature to be depraved, they felt themselves logically warranted in putting it in irons. But they failed; and their failure ought to be a warning to their successors.
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
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I believe in people.
