Al Pacino Quotes

It's not personal, it's strictly business.

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• I grew up in a very large, poor family.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Poor

• Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • You
  • Know
  • Single

• In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Relationship

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Star
  • First

• I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

  

  Valerie June
  • Day
  • Walking
  • Busy

• There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • People
  • Pride
  • Humility

• Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Greatest

• Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Song
  • Lady

• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • America
  • History

• 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Way
  • Consequences
  • Statement

• I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Feist
  • Know
  • Saying
  • Opinions

• I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Think
  • Sick

• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Conversation

• If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Think
  • Present

• Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Technology
  • Process
  • Weapons

• When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.

  

  Megan Fox
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Partner

• Reason can always disarm the irrational. If reason finds itself to be irrational, it can disarm it; and if one finds reason and discovers that eating animals is immoral, unnecessary, and done largely for superstitious reasons, then one is delivered from the compulsion to do it.

  

  Brigid Brophy
  • Done

• Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • Small
  • Fall

• I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Trust
  • Gold
  • Diamonds

• Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

  

  Alice Hoffman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• It's not personal, it's strictly business.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Business
  • Personal