Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
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Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.
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Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.
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A lot of my family are redheads, but I'm a dark blonde.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
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I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
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All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
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I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.
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I don't know, why am I called the opposite of what I am? It's very confusing to me.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.
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I think I'll always flutter all over. I'd like to live in different parts of the world - I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months.
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Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.
