Kevin Mitnick Quotes
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	I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.   
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	I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.   
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	I've directed independent film.   
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	Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.   
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	Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.   
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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.   
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	For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.   
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	Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.   
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	My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.   
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	As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.   
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	Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.   
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	I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.   
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	Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.   
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	Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.   
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	This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.   
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	So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.   
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	I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.   
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	I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.   
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	I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The West Wing.' We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.   
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	A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.   
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	With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.   
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	Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.   
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	I happen to be notorious. That, I have no control over.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					