Kevin Costner Quotes
I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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No one is going to understand your brand better than you.
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I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.
