Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.
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I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.
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When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
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Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
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I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.
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As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.
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I don't have a complex mind.
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I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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If you're certain, you're certainly wrong, because nothing deserves certainty.
