Alfred E. Perlman Quotes
After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
