Baden Powell Quotes
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I just want to do my job.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited.
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Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.
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In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
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It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he forgot nothing of what he had done, read, or thought, in any part of his rational age. This is a privilege so little known to most men, that it seems almost incredible to those who, after the ordinary way, measure all others by themselves; but yet, when considered, may help us to enlarge our thoughts towards greater perfections of it, in superior ranks of spirits.
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He would make a lovely corpse.
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It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
