Sean Durkin Quotes
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
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Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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Two powerful people can't be friends.
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Liberals don't read books – they don't read anything … That's why they're liberals. They watch TV, absorb the propaganda, and vote on the basis of urges.
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There is real power in seeing yourself as a hero. Because then you believe that you can do anything.
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Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that's where job growth is going to occur.
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Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.
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When I read 'Ray' for the first time, I had just quit. When I read 'The Last King of Scotland,' I had just quit. I hadn't quite quit when I read 'Scandal,' but I was feeling really unfulfilled as an actor.
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The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.
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The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.
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I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.
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No one understands my accent. I'm constantly going to auditions and being told they don't like how I talk. You have to live with criticism, and I don't take it personally.
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
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It's really fun to get recognized for 'Step Brothers.'
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Pop was great fun.
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I didn't grow up seeing faces of patriots, emotional and raw and gritty, who looked like me.
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I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
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Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.
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Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.
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When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.
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You can't write something to please someone.
