Carl Schmitt Quotes
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
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We get to a point where we're like, you know what, one day we're just not gonna be here anymore, so I'm going to enjoy every second of it.
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Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
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I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
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If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
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We don't care if you understand us.
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Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.
