Gene Hackman Quotes
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I did go through a phase where I played videogames quite often, but I haven't in a few years.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
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Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; Time's tragedy is in the aching stoop; Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, Plundered, profaned, and disinherited, Cries protest to the Powers that made the world. A protest that is also a prophecy.
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I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.
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Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery.
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What is reading, but silent conversation.
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If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.
