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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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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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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Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
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But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the Creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition.
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The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.
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I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
