Banks Quotes
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
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Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.
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The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.
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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.