Karl Polanyi Quotes
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As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.
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When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.
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As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
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I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
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I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
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I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
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Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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The Gospel is not a religious message to inform mankind of their divinity or to tell them how they may become divine. The Gospel proclaims a God utterly distinct from men.
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All of us have moments in our lives when we have to choose between what we know is right and what we feel obligated to do.
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Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.
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If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!
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Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.
