Eugene Ionesco Quotes
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
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Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.
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In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.
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The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people.
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
