Kevin Spacey Quotes
Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
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I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.
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I've always adored the filmmaker Sam Fuller. The first time I watched 'Shock Corridor' was such a magnificent discovery. I love his lack of subtlety, the way he tackles serious topics with bold and inappropriate humor.
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Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.
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It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
