Sean Penn Quotes

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

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• If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Study
  • Work Hard

• I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Look
  • Alive
  • I Can

• It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Fate
  • Fools
  • Sign

• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Interest
  • Lie
  • National

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Taken

• I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Try

• I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
  • High
  • Think

• Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Good
  • Anger

• Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Man
  • Me

• My husband makes sacrifices so that I can shine.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Husband
  • I Can
  • Shine

• Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Working
  • Leg

• I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Always
  • Clay
  • Henry

• Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Family
  • Home
  • Congress

• Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Body
  • Afraid
  • Before

• Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

  

  Kate Smith
  • People
  • Food
  • Need

• I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Mother
  • Die
  • Thought

• Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • You
  • Better

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

  

  Barack Obama, Sr.
  • Education
  • I Think
  • Sweat

• Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mean
  • Opinion
  • Architecture

• I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Actor
  • I Think
  • Role