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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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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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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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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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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That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
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I think it's just constantly on my mind: wanting to help people, not just with music but with my words. I feel like I want to do that for people.
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I spend a lot of time in American Apparel.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back.
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We want what is best for the people.
