Jeremy Piven Quotes
I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I will forever be proud to call myself a Bruin and will never forget the memories that were made here.
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The Trade Center itself held - and holds - a special place, I think, in the hearts and minds of people in law enforcement - the fact that it did not fall in 1993. Ramzi Yousef's goal was to topple the Twin Towers into each other so that more people died than had died at Hiroshima.
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I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.
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I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.
