Max von Sydow Quotes
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why you can't be the only girl for me.
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A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.
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Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.
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I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
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I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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With six meats and twelve wines or else without To walk another room...Monsieur and comrade, The soldier is poor without the poet’s lines.
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Your father is not my first husband. You are not those babies.
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As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.
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Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
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Back in the day as a kid, I was really drawn to the Hulk because it just felt so human and was probably one of the first stories that I felt emotionally invested in and not just thought it was really cool. You really feel for that person and put yourself in that situation.
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Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.
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I find it very hard to take myself seriously.
