Khalil Gibran Quotes
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.
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Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.
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We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.
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I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
