Hafez Quotes
The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I want to have a long career.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I'm a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don't think in these terms. I'm more simple than that. I'm a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life.
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I want to be evil! I did play Lady Macbeth on stage to Alec Baldwin's Macbeth back in New York in 1998. But I've played a lot of characters who are so righteous and understanding. I don't want to be a goody-goody two-shoes all the time.
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The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.
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Cooking is an important part of a good, stable family life. I like to get the family together; there's a huge nurturing element in it.
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The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.
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The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.
