Simon Baker Quotes
Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
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90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.
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I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.
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I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.
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There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.
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I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.
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Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.
