Carl Sandburg Quotes
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I'm a character actor.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.
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The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
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We have sent our troops to war without paying for it. Now, we are bringing them home without saying how we are paying for it.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
