Vin Diesel Quotes
Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.
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The world needs some help.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.
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If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
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I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.
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You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.
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The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to. Well, anyway, I've got a while yet before you're old enough to understand the tapes. They're more for me at this point... to help get it all straight. Should I tell you about your father? That's a tough one. Will it change your decision to send him here... knowing? But if you don't send Kyle, you could never be. God, you can go crazy thinking about all this... I suppose I'll tell you... I owe him that. And maybe it'll be enough if you know that in the few hours we had together we loved a lifetime's worth.
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Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.
