Joel Edgerton Quotes
I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue eyes. He kind of looked like Jared Leto.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
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The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.. .I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
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Let Catholics build their own churches and works.
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The farmer’s daughter hath soft brown hair (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)And I met with a ballad, I can’t say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.
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I am saddened that I have been linked with her politically... I have disagreed with her on every issue, from the bottom of my toes
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Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
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I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue eyes. He kind of looked like Jared Leto.
