Kevin Costner Quotes

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

Kevin Costner

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• I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

  

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• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

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• I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

  

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• All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

  

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• I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

  

  C. V. Raman
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• And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.

  

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• I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

  

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• I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.

  

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• People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.

  

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• We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

  

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• The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.

  

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• After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.

  

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• All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.

  

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• You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

  

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• Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.

  

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• My cheat days are bread, bread, bread, and cookies. I love bread!

  

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• The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

  

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• The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

  

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• Like so many survivors of childhood abuse, Marilyn exemplified the power of the life force, the will to live and to own one's life, the energy that counteracts the annihilation of trauma. I gradually came to realize that the only thing that makes it possible to do the work of healing trauma is awe at the dedication to survival that enabled my patients to endure their abuse and then to endure the dark nights of the soul that inevitably occur on the road to recovery.

  

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• Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Wisdom
  • Trouble
  • Artists