Kevin Kline Quotes
I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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Life is God's art.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.
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We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
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I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
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As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.
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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
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There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates.
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There are millions of eligible students who are not getting services. We have got to correct that. At its face value, it's wrong.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.
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Every country gets fired up to play us. They played well. I thought when it was 2-1 that we had some chances to make it 3, 4-1. He made some saves and we just missed some shots. They got a break on their second, and the third period I thought we had a lot of chances, he made some big saves. We got it done in the shootout.
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I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.
