Pliny the Elder Quotes
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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Time was God's first creation.
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We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.
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I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.
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I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
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I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room.
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A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
