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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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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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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A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'
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Presumably the child-brain is something like a note-book as one buys it from the stationer's. Rather little mechanism, and lots of blank sheets.
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Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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He who hears this name God from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.
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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.
