Max von Essen Quotes
I love Bill Finn's stuff. It's so rewarding for an actor. It's conversational but intricate. He writes some beautiful, simple songs and melodies, but he also writes this cacophony for people.
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I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
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If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
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There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
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The Dutch are a very practical people.
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Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
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I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
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The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
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My job as Taoiseach, and the job of any government, of course, is to represent all people.
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The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems.
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We need a leader who puts the health and well-being of the country ahead of 2016 politics.
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You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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I love Bill Finn's stuff. It's so rewarding for an actor. It's conversational but intricate. He writes some beautiful, simple songs and melodies, but he also writes this cacophony for people.
