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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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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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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I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
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As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I make no vows. I take my chance. … It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
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But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.
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I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.
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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.
