Sean Penn Quotes

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • School
  • Kids
  • Like

• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Films
  • Fan
  • Filmmaking

• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Time
  • Like
  • Arts

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Up
  • Remember
  • American

• As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • People
  • Women
  • Funny

• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • School
  • Never
  • Goodness

• I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Myself
  • Leave
  • League

• Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • War
  • News

• A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Family
  • Own
  • Superstitions

• Before and after my debut, I've helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being exclusively an assistant. Nor have I done individual or self-published manga.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Time
  • Done
  • Experience

• It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Nature
  • Rebel
  • Human Nature

• If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Going
  • Election

• I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Place

• Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.

  

  Jack Black
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Bad

• I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.

  

  Tyler Perry
  • Life
  • Art
  • Father

• When I was young, I originally wanted to be a radio on-air personality. Once I realized I may not be fit for that - I was infatuated with hip-hop - that I still wanted to be a part and give back the community, so I decided to carve my own path and make my own lane.

  

  Karen Civil
  • May
  • Community
  • Air

• One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH that was backed by the CIA. FRAPH killed thousands of Haitians in the early 1990s. Now while Constant is living comfortably in Queens, other Haitians are being deported. I wanted to see how those who have been bruised by people like that deal with coming face to face with their torturers.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Interest
  • Queens

• I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Person
  • Everything

• Each side has legitimate aspirations - and that's part of what makes peace so hard. And the deadlock will only be broken when each side learns to stand in the other's shoes; each side can see the world through the other's eyes. That's what we should be encouraging. That's what we should be promoting.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Peace
  • Eyes

• If your strategy calls for you to be in America, then you will go into America. If your strategy calls for you to be in M&A, then you'll do an acquisition. You usually acquire a company to acquire technology, geographic advantage, etc. Similarly, geographic expansion is very much like M&A. It's done to advance a strategy.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • Done
  • America
  • Technology

• I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

  

  Sean Penn
  • America
  • Licence
  • Road-rat