Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men'... 'Little Miss Sunshine'... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?
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I like history because you can't really progress without knowing what comes before you, so I think it's super fascinating.
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You don't need other people to affirm that you're a valuable person.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I research every part thoroughly. I talk it out with my actor friends, but then I throw it all away when I get to the set. You have to be spontaneous.
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Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.
