Casey Affleck (Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt) Quotes
In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.
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Simon, there are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.
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'We are tempted so that we may pray the more. Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit.'
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A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
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I think that place is a huge part of pretty much any musician's work, in how one responds to an environment, whether it be your actual surroundings or the more figurative place we're all living in.
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Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times when things get distorted because of people not paying attention to all the facts.
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When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.
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You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.
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If you're lying, you're lying.
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I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.
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[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.
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In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.
