Naomi Watts Quotes
There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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I can recognize a good actor. I can recognize someone that can convey emotion and that has the essence and not get lost in the minutia of, 'Well, that person's got red hair, and so does the other.' Some of the decisions in casting that seem so important at the time, until you get on set and you're starting to shoot.
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Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
