Kevin Costner Quotes
The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.
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My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
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I'll never put my memoirs in print.
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And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
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The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
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Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.
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I think Barack Obama and his team believe that the federal government is best prepared to handle virtually everything in our lives. I mean, they're socialists in every respect of the word and I think they'd like to take over everything in our lives if they could, including health care.
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The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.
