Al Pacino Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
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The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. It's a status that does exist.
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When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.
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To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.
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I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche way, like jazz and poetry, although probably more widely consumed than jazz and poetry since it's fundamentally a narrative form. And I think that's important and places like Word Riot and 'The New York Tyrant' and 'n+1' will be responsible for keeping it alive.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
