Tom Berenger Quotes
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
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I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
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In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.
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Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.
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When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.
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I get so into the moment.
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
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I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
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You want a storybook kind of closure with someone when they die, but I think that kind of thing is impossible.
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The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.
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Compassion is contempt with a human face.
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My father, Tommy, who was a trained draughtsman, played for Preston North End in the Finney era. He liked football but did not love it as I do.
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My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.
