Sean Penn Quotes
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
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Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
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I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.
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Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.
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I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.
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Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.
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I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.
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I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.
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Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.
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There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.
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I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.
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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.
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Accept that to be adult is to disappear, is to learn to hide to the point of vanishing?
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I think life's an irrational obsession.
