Al Pacino Quotes
I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.
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I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.
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My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
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The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
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I myself never feel that I'm sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier.
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If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.
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Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in relation to people of color if they want to survive and even thrive.
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I think I wanted to do something that retained the improvised chaos of 'Mamma Mia' the theatre show which set it apart from all the slick packaged productions.
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Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
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I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.
