Kevin Costner Quotes
I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I don't believe that competitions are important.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
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I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
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I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
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Stick up for what you believe in and never, ever feel that you can't say something or speak your mind. I think that would be the best advice. Be strong. Be confident. That's really all you need.
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But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
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I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'
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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
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A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.
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If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.
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I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
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I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.
