Joe Mantegna Quotes
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.
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I don't think anyone, no matter what, can find perfect happiness until they understand exactly who they are and how every little thing they do can affect the world around them. I think perfect happiness would be a world where everyone is constantly striving to understand everyone else.
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I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.
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'There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die' is a motto of the Mahatmas.
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There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.