George F. Kennan Quotes
Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.
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I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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There are roughly 22,000 Palestinians working side by side with what you call settlers in factories and malls in the West Bank. If you work together, you start understanding each other.
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I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.
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When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'
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Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity- * * * * * *That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears?
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When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.
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I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.
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Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
