Kevin Costner Quotes
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
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When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
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I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
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Endings don't have anything to do with what your movie is about. Now, there is an emotional climax, there's an emotional resolution that is 100 percent important. If I get that wrong, get your money back.
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If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best.
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
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That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?
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About every other week, I sit down with all of our new Zynga hires and I talk to them for about 90 minutes, have an open Q&A. There is no formal presentation. I talk about our values, where they came from and why they are so important, and I ask them to challenge those values.
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When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.
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My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.
