Casey Affleck (Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt) Quotes
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
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We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting.
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When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
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Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.
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The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.
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Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.
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I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.
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I think the sense of fairness in humans is very strongly developed, and that's why we react so strongly to all the bonuses received by Wall Street executives. We want to know why they deserve these benefits.
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I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.
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ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq. We have to take it seriously. They've shown in Paris what they can do in an organized fashion.
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People should try eating no animal products for just one day a week.
