Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
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I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
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It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.
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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
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Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.
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O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!
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You can always be the hardest working person in the room, and I think the hardest working person will always win.
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I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
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What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
