Benicio Del Toro Quotes
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Beaujolais is so underrated.
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I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
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Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.
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It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
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I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.
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The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea … the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.
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It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
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I think if you have an opportunity to live by example and make people aware of positive changes in our society, I think it's a great thing.
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I don't want awkward shows with people looking at their phones or tweeting. That's something you should do at home.
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I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.
