Kevin Costner Quotes
We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
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The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
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The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
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The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we're Mediterranean, and timing isn't our forte.
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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I'm a huge fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.
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I want to play football. I'm not just here to pick up my salary and do nothing. I'm young, I'm still 23 and still have a very long career, and I want to play games.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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Circuit training is a great way to go. Keeping the reps high and the weight low, you'll tone your muscles without bulking up.
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We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
