Sean Penn Quotes
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
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I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.
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A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
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Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. … Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.
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Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.
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It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.
