Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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My life has been a series of emergencies.
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Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
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When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.
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Since its founding, I've been friends with ModCloth's cofounders and many of its executives and investors. I have long imagined we would one day belong under one roof with that brand as a force in the future of apparel.
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If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.
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My major ambition is just to stay relevant.
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Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.
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To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it.
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Sometimes my interest in working on a film is not always dictated specifically by the character. Sometimes it's simply about wanting to be a part of a vision that I love, or a script that I love. I find exciting and gratifying.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.
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There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.
