Robert De Niro Quotes
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
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It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.
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We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.
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At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.
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Your life is always worth living.
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When you have things that are very important to you in life, when there are things you want to do and be - that takes work. It takes work to show up for your own story and show up for the dream and vision you have for yourself.
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Honestly, I really just think I work too hard to feel any pressure.
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It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.
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There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
