Benicio Del Toro Quotes
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
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I have a company attitude about my work. I don't like to do just one thing; I like to do a lot of things.
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I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.
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My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
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We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.
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'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.
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I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.
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I literally think that if you're in this business, it has to be the only thing you can and want to do, because it's so hard. You have to be fully committed - and partially insane - to wake up every morning and be like, 'I'm an actor.'
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Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.
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When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.
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At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.
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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.
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When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
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Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently.
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I was competing in an IPC World Cup race, but the finish area was short and I came across the line with my head down and went straight through the fence. It was only because the Italian team doctor leapt out to grab me that I didn't smash through the café window.
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I'm a slow reader.
