Lionel Ferbos Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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I still have a young attitude.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
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Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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As we look back, it seems like willful blindness. The abandonment of the radical economic foundation of the women's and civil-rights movements by the conflation of causes that came to be called political correctness successfully retrained generation of activists in the politics of image, not action.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.
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The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
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The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
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As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.
