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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If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
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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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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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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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I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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If there's anybody that's got better long-ball reaction than that guy -- he turned around and snatched that thing from I don't know where.
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I'm a slow reader.
