Lucretius Quotes
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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People really don't understand what actors do.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now from television rights, there's no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, 'smoked salmon and Bach.' (Now, sixty years later, my answer would be the same.)
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The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you can’t play nothing or sing nothing.
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There are common-sense things that your government could do that would give Americans more opportunities to succeed. Why don’t we do it? Because powerful special interests and the tendency to put ideology ahead of political progress have led to gridlock in Congress.
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Religion is a species of mental disease. It has always had a pathological reaction on mankind.
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After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.
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I feel if you believe in equality, you have to believe in it for everybody. And that's the way I've always lived my life.
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The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.
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I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!
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We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.
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Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam.
