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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  • Band
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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.

  

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

  

  Naftali Bennett
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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
  • People
  • Work
  • Know

• 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
  • People
  • American
  • Deep

• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Secret
  • Perseverance

• 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
  • Music
  • Always
  • Picture

• 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
  • People
  • Live
  • Night

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

  

  Carl Levin
  • World
  • Respect
  • Intelligence

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

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Home

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

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
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  • Practice

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

  

  Walter Scott
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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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• Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

  

  Rand Paul
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• Most forgers are caught because they tell the wrong person about what they do.

  

  Wolfgang Beltracchi
  • Persons
  • Wrong
  • Caught

• I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

  

  Gary Numan
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• Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.

  

  Etgar Keret
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• I had faith that music would be able to take me somewhere. I didn't know where. I just was like, 'Keep having faith, and any doors that open, I'll walk through them and see what happens from there.'

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Music
  • Faith

• The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Music
  • Art
  • Ideas

• 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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