Action Bronson Quotes
Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.
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What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
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I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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Artur Schnabel, one of the towering pianists of the twentieth century. Modified in tone but not spirit from Schnabel’s interview remarks in Chicago the same year Germany surrendered to the Allies. She also knew this was about as high a compliment as Paul Mandelbaum was capable of making. Schnabel’s performances of the thirty-two Beethoven sonatas were possibly the only thing her mentor was capable of carrying on about ad nauseam. You were never going to enter his pantheon of star pupils unless you gave yourself over, heart and soul, to Schnabel’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Klaviersonaten and the virtuoso’s idea that the greatest music was that which is “better than it can be performed.
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A woman should dress to attract attention. To attract the most attention, a woman should either be nude or wearing something as expensive as getting her nude is going to be.
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Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.
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Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.
