Al Pacino Quotes
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I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
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Violent anger makes me physically ill.
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Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
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Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
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The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.
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The content of many cutting-edge games is becoming more and more vivid, violent, and offensive to our most basic values.
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Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.
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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
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I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.
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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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We don't want peace over freedom. We will choose freedom over peace. We will go on with our fight for self-determination and democracy. But if things continue the way they are, I expect the situation to become more violent.
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What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.
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Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
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Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.
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In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.
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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
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These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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I'm not judging myself; I'm not dissing what I do. I'm proud of what I've done and I'm proud of what I'm working on. I've accomplished something and I'm not going to be ashamed to be happy about what I've done.
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Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.
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Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'
