Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
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First of all, directing was the most incredible experience. When you run a television show, directing is something that not many people actually get the time to do because you're so consumed with everything that's going on. You can't just disappear.
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My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'
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The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.
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I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.
