Orlando Aloysius Battista Quotes
The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
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The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
