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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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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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
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You put on the military outfit, and it definitely tightens everything up and makes you stand up straighter.
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Women are going to be a huge force in developing Web and mobile companies.
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Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation. (p. 362)
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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.
