Sean Penn Quotes
If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.
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Don't limit your audience.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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I always try to give my songs as gifts.
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My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
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I deeply believe that men and women need each other.
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Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.
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It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.
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Nothing is given to you. You've got to work for it.
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You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I love that country ham. Well you say I'm made just to fit your plans but there's a barnyard shovel pick your hands. If your eyes are on me you're lookin' at country.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In this lies our greatest debt to the Renaissance, that it instituted the welfare of men as the end of all action.
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Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Love is not me being who you want. Your definition is a whirlpool trying to suck me in and I'm drowning. Don't you see?...It's time...Time you stop telling me who to be, how to live. This is my portrait. You chose your canvas. Let me choose mine.
