I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.


Nicolas Cage

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Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
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Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
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I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
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I'm not afraid to take a punch.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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I'm a cat person.
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Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.
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I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.
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I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.
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I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
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I'm not afraid to die.
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I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
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If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'
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The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.
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I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.
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JOHN CAGE
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
JOHN CAGE
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner...
JOHN CAGE
Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
JOHN CAGE
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
JOHN CAGE
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
JOHN CAGE
Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.
JOHN CAGE
It was a big change. It's a whole lot more open now. Brian averaged 16 points for us, and losing tha...
JUSTIN CAGE
He's a lot bigger, so he can get in there for the rebound. B.J. is not going to back off anybody. Hi...
JUSTIN CAGE
With him being on the floor, he's a lot bigger, a guy that can get in there and rebound. B.J.'s ... ...
JUSTIN CAGE
Him being here today really showed us he still cares. He's our team captain. ... He's such a big par...
JUSTIN CAGE
It's a funny feeling without him being there. He sits in the same spot every day, and he's not there...
JUSTIN CAGE
We're thinking about it too much. When it starts getting mental, that's when you miss shots. I don't...
JUSTIN CAGE
We've been working hard the whole year just to get our name out there. But we're staying focused and...
JUSTIN CAGE
I think so, because he's such an important coach and he's known everywhere. It's going to seem a lit...
JUSTIN CAGE
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of tim...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who de...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselve...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: ...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who ha...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The ...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT