Casey Affleck (Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt) Quotes
All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.
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Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
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You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.
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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
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Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
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I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive.
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The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.
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One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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The heptathlon world record is nice, but the decathlon is the event. I think the heptathlon is more like a practice. There is something completely different about the decathlon.
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North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.
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When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.
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You cannot make a miracle like love happen.
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All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.
