Sergio Leone Quotes
Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through one's own experience. It isn't necessarily optimistic when you look at the political phenomena, the different things that are going on in the world.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.
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If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
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I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'
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I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
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When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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The problem with faith, is that it really is a conversation stopper. Faith is a declaration of immunity to the powers of conversation. It is a reason, why you do not have to give reasons, for what you believe.
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If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
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Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.
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Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through one's own experience. It isn't necessarily optimistic when you look at the political phenomena, the different things that are going on in the world.
