Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.
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The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
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Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.
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Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
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If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.
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I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write.
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There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.
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Haiti is open for business!
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I choose to hunt, and I choose to fish. Everything I've done has been totally legal.
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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
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For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
