Gerrit Smith Quotes
Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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I think the people who probably have it the best are the people on cable like on 'Entourage', 'the Sopranos', etc. who have 13 episodes per season and breaks to do films and theatre. I think that's the most ideal life.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.
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I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.
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They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.
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I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.
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In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
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Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
