J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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When you're acting on camera, you don't really think of your voice. You think of the whole instrument - your body, your look, and whatever you have to do. But when you're doing the voiceover, you're thinking only of your voice. You really can't compare the two different mediums.
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Actually it broke my heart to hear that we were going to have to part ways, ... It's a business and they had to do what they had to do.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.
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I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.
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Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.
