John Steinbeck Quotes
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
Quotes to Explore
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.
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I gained a lot of confidence after 'IP Man' as being a true actor. I went on to tackle what it is an actor is supposed to do before a film. Do a lot of research, get into the character. That's what I did with 'Dragon.'
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Hip-hop has always been about keeping it authentic and being authentically you. That is what I try to do in my music and when I speak about the Bible.
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You like me, you don't like me, you love me, you hate me. I'm gonna be me, but one thing I have to back it up is skills.
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I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
