Mel Gibson (Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson) Quotes
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
 
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	A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.   
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	Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.   
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	'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.   
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	I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.   
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	I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.   
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	I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.   
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	I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.   
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	Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.   
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	My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.   
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	You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.   
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	I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.   
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	People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.   
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	The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.   
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	If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.   
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	Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.   
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	I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.   
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	Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.   
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	My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.   
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	Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.   
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	The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.   
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	My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.   
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	I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?'   
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	When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the distant becomes the near; strangeness becomes intimacy and fear becomes love. (2) We enter into a new relationship with our fellow men. Hatred becomes love; selfishness becomes service; and bitterness becomes forgiveness. (3) We enter into a new relationship with ourselves. Weakness becomes strength; frustration becomes achievement; and tension becomes peace.   
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	I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					