Anthony Pollina Quotes
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.
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Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
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I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.
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Helping Wall Street regain confidence and stability was the last thing an angry public wanted in 2009 after the markets crashed. But without such support, markets can buckle and liquidity can disappear - often for decades, as has been the case in Japan.
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The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. . . .
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.
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We want what is best for the people.
