Costa Ronin Quotes
When you watch people when they're relaxed, that's when you learn the most about them. That's when you really learn about who they really are.
Quotes to Explore
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?
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I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.
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I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.
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I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.
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The only way to solve the problems now besetting mankind is to eliminate completely the exploitation of dependent countries by developed capitalist countries, with all the consequences that this implies.
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When you watch people when they're relaxed, that's when you learn the most about them. That's when you really learn about who they really are.
