Wallace Shawn Quotes
I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough!
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I grew up with a saying: 'It doesn't matter what you wear or where you go, but your hair always has to be brushed.' So in Italy, we come from that kind of culture - where how you present yourself is important.
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Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.
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I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.
