Carmine Coppola Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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You really want some natural way for people to get Bitcoins, as part of their paycheck or some other activity so they can turn around and spend them. It's much better if the Bitcoin economy is a self-contained thing.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I love an iPad game of Scrabble.
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Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.
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Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.
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That's part of show business: the moving.
