Sam Elliott Quotes
I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.
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Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.
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I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.
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Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
