Casey Affleck (Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt) Quotes
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.
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I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
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Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.
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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall... "She lives, but all her usefulness is past."
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My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
