Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
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To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.
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Subconscious is motivated by emotion, right? Not reason.
