Ryan Gosling Quotes
I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.
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Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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I kind of discovered Kolkata when I was shooting here for 'Kahaani.' I found the city fascinating.
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more.
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I think it's necessary to evaluate a skyscraper at multiple scales, since that's how we experience it: from right next to it on the street to from across the river, as well as at all kinds of points in between. It's important to think of it as an element in a larger skyline, but also as an element in an immediate streetscape.
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I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother.
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People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.
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My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.
