Joel Edgerton Quotes
Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
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You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
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I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
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If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
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Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
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We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.
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Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'
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Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.
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I do not serve your personal issues, Morevna. I serve the People, and the People will have crimes against their body answered. You fought at Leningrad. So did I. Why should he be spared?' 'Somebody ought to be.
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I feel comfortable working with people who are secure in themselves and confident in what they do.
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Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
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We may sing 'welcome, welcome, Holy Spirit', but He does not come because of our welcome. He is no guest, no stranger invited in for an hour or two. He is the Lord from heaven and He invites us into His presence.
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Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.
