Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
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I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I'm not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.
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I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
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Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.
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In each mirror, each moment A new face reveals His beauty.
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I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.
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I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot think about it, we cannot conceptualize it. Unfortunately at this human level we cannot feel it, we cannot know it. We have to be the spirit to know the truth.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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One of the things performers worry about is who you follow. But if I can't top what I heard in the last hour. ... There wasn't one iota of humor! You guys are so serious.
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
