Steve McQueen (Terence Steven McQueen) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
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Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand.
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When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it. If I see a chair in a beautiful space, no matter how beautiful the chair is, it can never be as beautiful to me as the plain space.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.
