Wayne Gretzky Quotes
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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Science is not gadgetry.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
