Sam Ervin Quotes
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.
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The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
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I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.
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You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.
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I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.
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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
