Colin Farrell Quotes
I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.

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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski -
That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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My Aunt Sheila was terrifying! She would put a napkin in her mouth and say, 'You've got something on your face, dear. Let me just scratch that off your face. Let me sand your cheek.'
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I definitely had fun being a waiter. I can't say for sure that I was a good waiter. I think that I made people have a good time.
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Dating can be painful, can be great, can be confusing, can be weird, but I don't do it online because I'm not really an online person.
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I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about.
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I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.