John Dewey Quotes
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
Quotes to Explore
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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The writer is all alone.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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Nature … has born and reared all men alike, and created them genuine brothers, not in mere name, but in very reality, though this kinship has been put to confusion by the triumph of malignant covetousness, which has wrought estrangement instead of affinity and enmity instead of friendship.
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Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness.
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Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.
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Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
