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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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
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I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.
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In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
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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.
