Marc Rich Quotes
I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
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People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.
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The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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It ticks me off to hear people say, 'Hey man, at your age you don't look like you're slowing down a bit.' Like, can I just be a football player? Why does the 33 age have to coincide with me when you talking football?
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Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.
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I've always loved to incorporate music into acting because I have a passion for both.
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When you get something off the ground, it's fantastic, and you feel really close to that group of people.
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No longer are the days where I just kind of fly under the radar. Everybody's recognizing me. Everybody wants pictures. They feel inspired. It's very cool.
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I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.
