Willem Dafoe Quotes
I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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I must be the only person in 'Strictly' history who's actually put on weight during rehearsals.
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I wept that all must die -'Yet Love,' I cried, 'doth live, and conquer death -'And Time passed by,And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breathEre Death was nigh.More bitter far than allIt was to know that Love could change and die -Hush! for the ages call'The Love of God lives through eternity,And conquers all!'
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What are we out at the park for, except to win?
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I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe.
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I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.
