Homer Quotes
Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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Venus favors the bold.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.
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I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.
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Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.
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When you first hear the name 'Max Irons,' you'd be forgiven for assuming that Marvel comics has come up with a new superhero.
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The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth
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A moment or an eternity-did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.
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What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: 'Paint me just as I am.' Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.
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In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.
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We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.
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You can't write any form of fiction unless you enjoy reading it. You must be sincere in your approach. It's no good despising the form. So many people think they could earn some money from writing something for which they have no affection. It won't work. The first thing you have to have is belief.
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Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.
