You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.
BRAD PITTWhen I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn’t a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I’m capable enough to handle any situation. There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and that I’m responsible.
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America is not a country, it’s a business.
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There’s no right. There’s no wrong. There’s only popular opinion.
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Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing
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Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
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Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.
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The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
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I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said ‘We saw your movie.’ ‘Which one?’ I said. He shouted ‘Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn’t like?
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Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.
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I don’t want to die without scars.
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Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.
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Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.
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I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.
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I’m probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don’t think anyone really knows. You’ll either find out or not when you get there, until then there’s no point thinking about it.
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America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe, if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. That’s my thinking, right or wrong.
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No more excuses. I can’t blame anything on my parents. I’m responsible for my mistakes and my choices.
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Yeah. And it was too much of what you shouldn’t be doing instead of what you should be doing. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. It drives me mental.
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I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don’t discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that’s very telling.
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In Missouri, where I come from, we don’t talk about what we do – we just do it. If we talk about it, it’s seen as bragging.
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Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
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Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.
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A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss. That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.
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I haven’t known life to be any happier.
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The things you own end up owning you.
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I don’t feel restless, I just like to travel.
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Most of the time is with the family. Most of the time, is all the time. When we work it’s a very intensive chunk of time. We work for 12 hours a day, 14 hours a day is common. And we’ll do that for a few months and then we get to relax a little bit.
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The best moments can’t be preconceived. I’ve spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.
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