Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
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India didn’t play particularly well, but if you ask me I would say my best memory is we beat eventual winners Pakistan in a league match. It’s not a positive memory for me, but to say we beat the team which held the trophy makes me feel better.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.
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Beauty? What's that?
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I say it speeds thee not That Christ rose from the grave, So long as thou art still To death and sin a slave.
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There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; 'I am rising to a man’s work.'
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I love the London vibe. I get so much love from London that I never had from other places. It's crazy. The people there understand music so much more.
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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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You saw the exodus of many people on the business council, who resigned, who said those are not my personal values, those are not our corporate values, and those - we don't believe - are the values of our country.
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How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don’t know.
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I have a great respect for the flag, but if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don't think I would do it. I've always felt that I lived in a country...where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist, I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there's no condemnation...from a government authority.
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What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.
