Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
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The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.
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Even if religion and morality are dismissed as illusion, the word 'Ought' still has sway.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
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The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
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Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
