Mel Gibson (Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson) Quotes
When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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You were born as the one you are.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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I've always wanted to be a singer.
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The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.
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When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.
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I, like many people, am constantly on my phone.
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When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.
