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 is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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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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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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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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This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.
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People say, 'Are you insane?' But the most successful climbers are the most calculating, with the most refined sense of risk. They're hyper-conscious of safety. They're the least insane people I know.
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We need to put love back into the world remind the world that love is important. We're all one.
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The game is No. 1. You are an adjunct to the game. In a studio, there is no game. You are the star. That's why you are there. For the game, you can't go away from the game and beat your chest. People are there to watch the game. You are there to supplement, not to override or overwhelm.
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Do you really love me? means, Will you accept me in process? Will you embrace what is different about me and applaud my efforts to become? Can I just be human - strong an vibrant some days, weak and frail on others?...Will you love me even when I disappoint you?
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I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.
