Kevin Bacon Quotes

Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.

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• I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Think

• It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Effort
  • Changes

• I think it's always best to be who you are.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • You
  • Best

• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Listen
  • News

• I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Black
  • Know
  • White

• The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Great
  • Sin
  • Construction

• I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Character

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
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  • Retire

• Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Friends
  • Worry
  • Moral

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
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  • Ladder

• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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  • Children

• Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • May
  • New
  • Back

• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Kind
  • Poverty
  • Argument

• I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • People
  • Power

• And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • World
  • Think
  • Control

• Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.

  

  Bruce Feirstein
  • Long
  • Real
  • Political

• When Western Europe needed defense, along with the United States, it looked to Turkey for that defense on its eastern flank against the then-Soviet Union, ... No issues were then raised that it had an Islamic majority.

  

  Jack Straw
  • United States
  • Islamic
  • Defense

• A lot of the movements we do in the gym are things that can be done outside, but we have the benefits of the beautiful scenery, the fresh air, the sunlight, and the vitamin B.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Gym
  • Benefits
  • Movements

• Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.

  

  Kevin Bacon
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