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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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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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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I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.
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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
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Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.
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What's wrong with trying hard and showing up and being good at your job? We really need to look at ourselves and say we need to reevaluate this. We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing. It's okay to be ambitious; it's okay to be over-prepared.
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There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability.
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I'm a lot more serious on the court. I'm probably a lot more intense than some of these guys thought I would be. Off the court, I'm a totally different dude. But my passion's to win, and I'm a perfectionist out there.
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My whole life, I have considered myself a feminist.
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It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.
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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.
