Malcolm D. Lee Quotes
Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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I like to see life with its teeth out.
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Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.
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I started teaching when I was in my 20s because Lee Strasberg asked me to, and he didn't do that with a lot of people.
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Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.
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Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.
