Naval Ravikant Quotes
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
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England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
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In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
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There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.
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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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I'm too much of a big kid.
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A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
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If you use a bad password, your Bitcoin will get stolen.
