Simon Baker Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.
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With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.
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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
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My closest friends are the ones who tell me that I'm being dumb or that I'm being wrong.
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The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It's just... it's perfect. You're perfectly present. You're perfectly in the moment. You're perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You're just surfing. You're surfing away with your friends or your family, and that's it. You're just there.
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The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.
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I do have a lot of Australian friends.
