Alan Ladd Quotes
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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Being able to be on set every single day and actually lead a movie was very humbling but so exciting at the same time.
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The outlaw uses the knife to separate the persona from the self. The outlaw uses the warrior’s sword to cut through his own character armor to destroy the defense mechanisms that have kept him imprisoned within the citadel of personality and role.
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There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.
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I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.
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Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
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Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.
