Willem Dafoe Quotes
Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
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I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.
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Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.
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I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.
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If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.
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Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.
