Kevin Spacey Quotes
Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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My favorite movie is 'Iron Man.' I tell people that I think it's just as good as 'Dark Knight,' if not better, and people tell me I'm crazy. I really like 'Iron Man.'
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
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Why do you bother asking, when you know the answer and you also know that you don't intend to believe it?
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Those first big concerts we played as 'Throwing Copper' started to really reach people worldwide - I think we played our first big arena show at the George Estate basketball arena down in Atlanta. I remember showing up and standing on stage and just being like, 'I can't believe this is going to be full of people. This is huge.'
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Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
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I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.
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Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
