Sean Penn Quotes
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It's very hard to live in an environment where you're reminded, constantly told that your existence just happens to be here... That you are not meant to be here.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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When I decided to work with Krishna Vamsi, people around me were apprehensive about my decision. They warned me that I shouldn't work with an unsuccessful director.
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I don't like when I look too cluttered.
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I travel so much for work that when I fly, I prefer to travel light and bring a carry-on bag that I don't need to check.
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There's nobody quite as mean as people being mean for Jesus.
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Our American money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.
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Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.
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We fully recognized that our customers have a variety of devices. They're carrying all sorts of things. And we want to bring our world-class apps to those devices.
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I get a little scared of words like maturity.
