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.

Kevin Costner

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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.

  

  Walter Scott
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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!

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

  

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• There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.

  

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• I realized that that Golden Rule does not exist online. You are not held to that same standard as when there is a teacher in the room or someone monitoring behavior.

  

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• We're just a big media family. My mom is always sending us articles throughout the day. My husband now works at Facebook... so it's just a very high-paced media culture, our texts. It's links and photos, and all hours of the day, because my dad, my brother, and I are night owls, and my mom and my husband wake up early.

  

  Allison Williams
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  • High

• When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have to be this thing where I go out and I'm like candy-striping, or becoming a therapist or something. I think that maybe, maybe I'm supposed to be a musician, because of that fact.

  

  Anthony Green Circa Survive
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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
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Read