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.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
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• Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

  

  Pancho Villa
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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.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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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.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  

  Salvador Dali
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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.

  

  Gavyn Davies
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• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  

  Kate Adie
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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.

  

  Karen Kain
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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.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
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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.

  

  Tad Williams

• 'We are tempted so that we may pray the more. Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
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• A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

  

  Otto Weininger
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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.

  

  Samuel Pepys
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• I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.

  

  Lorna Luft
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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.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
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• As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.

  

  Anton du Beke
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• I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics.

  

  Loni Love

• Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

  

  Foster Friess
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• In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and it's obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they can also bring you lots of opportunities to do amazing things.

  

  Katherine Webb
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• I would have to say that because I've lived in so many cities, by no means do I feel it's fair to call myself a 'fan' of any particular teams. I've lived in New York for a long time, and I did this movie about the Yankees called '*61.' I found out a lot about the Yankees during that time, so I love the Yankees, I've watched the Yankees.

  

  Chris Bauer
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• The trains that travel the Chunnel are massive machines. The Eurostars are bullet-shaped and a quarter-mile long. They are pulled by a 136,000-pound locomotive and move in the open air at 185 m.p.h. and through the tunnel at 100 m.p.h.

  

  Peter Landesman
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• In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.

  

  Casey Affleck
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