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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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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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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As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.
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I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
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Given the news we all read or hear about, it's actually made me a stronger parent - I'm not a 'helicopter parent,' but I am very aware of local and world events and want to teach them what's right and wrong.
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Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to act against the buildup of imbalances in the economy.
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When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you would probably never come near their returns in the stock market. In the world that I see, land is golden.
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In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.
