Henry David Thoreau Quotes
He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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I've always maintained that the problem in India is that we only give credit to big contributions.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
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God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child's going to drink that water.
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I get if you're a conservative, and you're saying, I don't know, 'Government shouldn't be mandating what's taught in classrooms,' or, 'Government is too intrusive in our economic life,' well, that's standard conservatism.
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I worked for a couple of screamers in my early days in Hollywood. I don't like being screamed at, and I am not myself a screamer.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.
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He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.
