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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I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
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As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared to about 35 percent and 30 percent, respectively, in 1920.
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Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.
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Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.
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I'm a slow reader.
