Heraclitus Quotes
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.
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When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals should be to eliminate and overcome these central institutions. And in recent years we have gained powerful new tools to do this, and most significant among those is the block chain, which is the software behind Bitcoin.
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I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.
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I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.
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I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.
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Each of us inevitable;Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
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When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.
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A fool cannot hold his tongue.
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The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
