Sam Worthington Quotes
I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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When your arms are out wide, you'll capture love and joy and golden moments but other things, too. Mistrust will sneak in on a wave of that joy, and complications will ride the backs of the golden moments, and there will be both love and the risks of love. That's the way it is. That's the design.
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Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.
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I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.
