Benicio Del Toro Quotes

Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

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• The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • Death
  • Fear

• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Know
  • Economics

• History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

  

  Mal Peet
  • History
  • Road
  • Burger

• What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • More
  • Promises

• I don't use emojis. I go vintage.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Use
  • Go
  • Vintage

• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Earth

• I like to run fast but not drive.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Run
  • Drive
  • Fast

• To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Courage
  • Fight

• Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Proud
  • Countries
  • Cricket

• There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Good
  • Women
  • Talent

• I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Home
  • Me
  • Government

• Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Meeting

• The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Space

• It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Power
  • Society
  • Model

• While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • World
  • Age
  • Myself

• I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Perfection
  • Goodness
  • Blessings

• Every time I open a new restaurant, I wake up in the middle of the night moaning about bread and water. I dream I am in the middle of the dining room, and I am panicked.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Up
  • Time
  • Dream

• I believe if you're prepared to kill the animal, you're allowed to eat it.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Believe
  • Animal

• The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.

  

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
  • People
  • Great
  • War

• Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the 'Aha.' Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.

  

  Alan Kay
  • Art
  • Job
  • Science

• Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your, knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way.

  

  Saadi
  • Hand
  • Road
  • Enemy

• Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

  

  Benicio Del Toro