Lee Marvin Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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We just here to do our job.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
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This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.
