Aidan Quinn Quotes
Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
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What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.
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I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.
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At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.
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Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.
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Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations - perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization.
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Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.
