Gene Green Quotes
Our federal resources, our U.S. marshals, and the federal court system are being used, I think, by the private sector.
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.
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I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
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I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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I always wanted to do a Disney movie.
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'Quality' means what will sell and do a customer some good - at least try to.
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Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.
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'Poor humans; they will all die.''Poor us; we will not.'
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...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.
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I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.
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I wanted to write joyful music that made other people feel good. That’s what I tried to do for the past 27 years.
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I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.
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Our federal resources, our U.S. marshals, and the federal court system are being used, I think, by the private sector.
