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.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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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.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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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.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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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.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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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.
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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.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
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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.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.
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Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.
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Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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I love to play in the different keys like B or F sharp, or keys that most people don't play in, because they have a better resonance or something. I'm really not fond of F and C. I just stay away from those if I can.
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It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.
