Benicio Del Toro Quotes
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
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I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.
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If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!
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I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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Even in the limo, I buckle my seatbelt. I got that seatbelt on before the car moves.
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I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
