Anthony Mackie Quotes
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The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.
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I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.
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It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
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Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.
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Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
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When employees feel anonymous in the eyes of their managers, they simply cannot love their work, no matter how much money they make or how wonderful their jobs seem to be.
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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For my body, I like high-waisted jeans because they make your leg look longer and hides this extra thing on my stomach. You can eat extra food with it because it hides, and I like to tuck in my t-shirts.
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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
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I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
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If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.
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If we can forgive what's been done to us... If we can forgive what we've done to others... If we can leave our stories behind. Our being victims and villains. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.
