Allen W. Wood Quotes
Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not good measures of the value of what we have done, it should be enough for any of us that as far as we can tell, in some small way we have made humanity's future better rather than worse.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant.
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Algunas cosas se hacen tan nuestras que las olvidamos.
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When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.
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I know straight away if there are roles I don't want to do, and I have a lot of arguments with my agents about those.
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It's important to win with style.
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I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.
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I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.
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I'll just say that there are certain people who continue to be hired in Hollywood, and that leaves me truly shocked.
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An artist is the only thing I want to be. I only want my freedom and my creativity. It's all that I live for. I reject the idea that I have to take all the costumes and makeup off to be f - king authentic.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.
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My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that have done a far better job than we have in protecting the needs of their working families, their elderly citizens, the children, the sick and the poor.
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Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not good measures of the value of what we have done, it should be enough for any of us that as far as we can tell, in some small way we have made humanity's future better rather than worse.
