Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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I don't think about it. I have always been linked up with everybody.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
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It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
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Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.
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Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there's nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.
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I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.
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James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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Movies are different from real life.
