Jefferson Davis Quotes
...How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
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Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.
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When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
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I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
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Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.
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Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page.
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But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?
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It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.
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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
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We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.
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...How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
