Rainer Weiss Quotes
There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn't a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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Of course I get hurt.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
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The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
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When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."
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Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's Kessler insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
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There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn't a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that.
