Val Kilmer Quotes
It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
Rachel McAdams
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Ovid
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Adam McKay
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
Victoria Jackson
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
Idi Amin
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
Park Chan-wook
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
Naomi Benaron
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
M. Night Shyamalan
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I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
Kaniehtiio Horn
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President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.
Valerie Jarrett
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
Eddie Marsan
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
T. Boone Pickens
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
Joanne Rowling
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I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.
Kirsten Nelson
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
Garry Shandling
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
Ian Hacking
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I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.
Pierre Loti
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I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
Jeffrey Brown
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It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.
Val Kilmer