Kevin Costner Quotes
When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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My health is fine.
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29, when I made my first short film that went to Sundance.
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The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'
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The consumer is really underutilized in health care.
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For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.
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I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.
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When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.
