Vin Diesel Quotes
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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...there's no such thing as sustainability. There are just levels of it. It's a process, not a real goal. All you can do is work toward it. There's no such thing as any sustainable economy. The only thing I know that's even close to sustainable economic activity would be organic farming on a very small scale or hunting and gathering on a very small scale. And manufacturing, you end up with way more waste than you end up with finished product. It's totally unsustainable. It's just the way it is.
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You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.
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People don`t like getting dirty or living in an environment that`s been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I grew up with all kinds of people.
