Lance Henriksen Quotes
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.
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In America, you can't say to your family, 'Hey, I'm off to L.A. to make it as a songwriter; sorry I can't pay for the dentist.'
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For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
