Kevin Costner Quotes

I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
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• I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  

  Yann Tiersen
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• In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

  

  Aaron Lazar
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• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

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• I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

  

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• I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
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• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.

  

  Carl Levin
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• I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

  

  Oliver Reed
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• My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
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• Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

  

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• I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

  

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• Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.

  

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• I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

  

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• Video games as a storytelling medium are, from a mathematical standpoint, a branching narrative. You start at one place, you can go in multiple different directions, and there's a multitude of different endings.

  

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• I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

  

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• I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

  

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  • Think
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• I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.

  

  Kevin Costner
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  • Writing
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