Eric Stoltz Quotes
My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.
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Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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Every choice you make has an end result.
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I never have had blonde hair. I have never had straight hair. I never wear pink clothes or spray tan and I never wore heels to school.
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Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.
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If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.
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Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.
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The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.
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Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.
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I believe that no one can teach you how to act, but schools do give you an environment to make mistakes, to learn techniques and to learn professionalism.
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I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.
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As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
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The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
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There's something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it's also very rewarding.
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As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.
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My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.
