Al Pacino Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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Music is my release.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.
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Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for.
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I think I'm a good actor, but to replicate tens of thousands of man hours in surgery is really hard.
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I don't get the action... well, I never did get the big action hero parts. I was always locked into making the kids movies, which were a lot of fun.
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Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
