Kevin Costner Quotes
I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I have a great office.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.
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The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
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In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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Whenever I do my concerts, I try to do master classes or students.
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I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.
