Warren Beatty Quotes
I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not honest.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each day.
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.
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The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.
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I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
