I’m trying to preach the idea that if we don’t pay attention to history we’re destined to repeat it.
CLINT EASTWOODI do believe in self-help.
More Clint Eastwood Quotes
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Directing is more like you’re being a psychologist and you’re kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.
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Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.
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People love westerns worldwide. There’s something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It’s a simpler time. There’s no organized laws and stuff.
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I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
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Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.
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There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.
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Let’s not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
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Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.
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Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there’s free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I’ll kill you. I mean it.
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Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.
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When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
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No, I don’t have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you’re in character, you’re in character. You don’t sit there purposely thinking, Well, I’ll grunt here, or I’ll groan there.
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I never look back and think too much about my films. I’ve done some work I’ve been proud of over the years but which of them is my favourite I really don’t know. I could say the last one. I’ve had little jumps in my career like Unforgiven possibly.
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I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.
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That’s the secret to a movie career – just keeping an open mind.
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Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.
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The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.
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Extremism is so easy. You’ve got your position, and that’s it. It doesn’t take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.
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When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross.
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I’d say people get to work and start being more understanding of everybody – instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding. But get in there and get it done. Kick ass and take names. And this may be my dad talking, but don’t spend what you don’t have.
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A good man always knows his limitations.
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There’s nothing like a nice piece of hickory.
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Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
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Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.
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One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.
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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
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