Kevin Bacon Quotes
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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A good leader must be fair.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
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I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.
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We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.
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You need to give yourself the time to think freely. I don't know if that is political. But sometimes things are political because you observe things that are right or that are wrong and you want to speak on them.
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I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
