Casey Affleck (Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt) Quotes
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
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Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
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Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.
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I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.
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I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
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I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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The only problem I have with computers and television is that when all cultures on earth reach the stage we are at it will lead to a kind of homogenization.
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The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.
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It is not when he is working in the office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.'
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I think it's just a nerve-wracking thing to sing in a movie in general.
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I always knew that good stuff would come along when I was older. So when I was 18, I longed to be 30; when I was 30, I longed to be 50. I've always looked forward to my next birthday.
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People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.
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You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.
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I'm not putting pressure on myself, all I know is I want to do music.
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As an observer, I react to the realities of Israeli life with both envy and relief. Nobody wants to live under the threat of constant attack from enemies right next door, under ceaseless and often unfair international scrutiny, defending his homeland by day and living with the memories of mass genocide at night.
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I'm tired of answering questions about myself.
