Michael Rapaport Quotes
If my son was an actor I would tell him, "Don't let people know as much about you as I let people know about me." Because I think professionally, it's an easier road. That would be something I would tell a young actor. But it's cool.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.
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People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
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'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
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Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
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Pay attention to other people's nightmares because they might be contagious.
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My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.
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The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every indignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.
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If my son was an actor I would tell him, "Don't let people know as much about you as I let people know about me." Because I think professionally, it's an easier road. That would be something I would tell a young actor. But it's cool.
