Sam Shepard Quotes
I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.
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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
