Al Pacino Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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A good leader must be fair.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
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America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.
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I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
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I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we don't always agree.
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Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.
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The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.