Andrew Bogut Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I definitely want to grow intelligently, but I do want to stay a kid forever!
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I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
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When I started out I was a failed actor.
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It's long been my dream to have myself declared incompetent so I could just practice all day, and blog, and not have to take care of any normal life things.
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The old paradigm was pay to play. Now you get back what you authentically put in. You've got to be willing to play to play.
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These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.
