Kevin Costner Quotes

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

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• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
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• You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
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• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
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• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
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• I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.

  

  Rachel Joyce
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• Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

  

  Usher
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• I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

  

  Zahi Hawass
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• Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Time
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• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Why
  • Eye

• So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
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  • Many
  • Loyal

• The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

  

  Eberhard Weber
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• There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Giving
  • Focus
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• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
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• When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

  

  Gabriel Mann
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• Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.

  

  Kate O'Mara
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• I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

  

  Ian Botham
  • People
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• We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • Now
  • Health care

• I'm not proud of having been married -I've had five affairs, all of them real wingdings. I've enjoyed every goddamned minute of them, but sooner or later I've outgrown every one of them, and when I did I got fed up and threw them out. If they can't keep up with me, the hell with them.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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• I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.

  

  Karen Elson
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  • Success

• The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
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• The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

  

  Mary Ritter Beard
  • Men
  • Mind

• I always delegate. If someone is very good at something, whatever it is, he will be in charge.

  

  Johan Cruyff
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• I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

  

  Kevin Costner
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