Michael Pitt Quotes
You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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The fashion industry really welcomed me with open arms and open hearts. They've been very accepting of my faith. I have strict wardrobe requirements, and that's something they've upheld.
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I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!
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That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
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I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.
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Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
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As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
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For a while, I became a model scout and agent, thinking naively I could change the industry from the inside, and even kicked off the famous 'size zero debate' with an article I wrote to the 'Evening Standard' about my concerns from behind the curtain of the business, back in 2005.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.
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Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.
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You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them.
