Al Pacino Quotes
I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.
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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
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As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.
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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
