Sam Rockwell Quotes
I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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Novels are longer than life.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.
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I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
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We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
