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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Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
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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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Nothing threatens a father’s involvement in the family more than his obligation to be the family’s 'financial womb,' creating 'The Father’s ‘Catch-22’': loving the family by being away from the family. It is the irony of traditional fatherhood: being a father by not being a father.
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I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight, not to delude myself and think I was larger than I was.
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I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what's going on but that the planets know what's going on.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too.
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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If you're certain, you're certainly wrong, because nothing deserves certainty.
