Al Pacino Quotes
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
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I've always wanted to be a singer.
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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
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I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.
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I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
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I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
