Gilbert Arenas Quotes
It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
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I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
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I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.
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I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade.
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Buy into good, well-researched companies and then wait. Let's call it a sit-on-your-hands investment strategy.
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'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' is interesting, intriguing.
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I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
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You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
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It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.
