Albert Parsons Quotes
Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.
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There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
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I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.
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After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.
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We lived in Colorado, and my parents were outdoorsy mountain people. My father would always say, 'Go out and don't come back until you have something to show me.' Which meant he wanted me to come back with a scraped knee or an injury. When I went out to play, I felt like I'd better get hurt.
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It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.
