Jeremy Renner Quotes
I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I've never been a partier.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.
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Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.
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At the very least, you must make the Internet free in areas that are poverty-stricken. Without the Internet and access to information, poverty-stricken households will never catch up to households above the poverty line - throwing the African-American community deeper into the stone ages.
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The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.
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Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.
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I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.
