Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
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The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.
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Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.
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I'm proud - or really more thankful than anything - for all the work that I've gotten.
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If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
