Willem Dafoe Quotes
I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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No two wars are identical.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.
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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
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Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.
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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
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I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
