Keanu Reeves Quotes
I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.
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Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero.
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One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.
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I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
