Tom Atkins Quotes
We've all aged some, but I just did, this past summer, another Rockford Files movie with the whole gang out there, Joe Santos and everybody else.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I don't want to get fat.
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I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
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The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
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My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
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What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.
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When a campaign doesn't go my way, I always take a step back, look at the facts, and try to figure out what we could learn from that experience.
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I've seen tennis clubs close in Manhattan and garages put up in their place, and I'd sure like to be part of reversing that trend.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
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We've all aged some, but I just did, this past summer, another Rockford Files movie with the whole gang out there, Joe Santos and everybody else.
