Kevin Spacey Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
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You have to be yourself.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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My problem is, if any place I'm sleeping catches on fire, I've got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more.
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Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
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A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.