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"I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation."
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"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."

"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."

"If you escape from a necessary fight, pray you will live long enough to wait for and deal with the same challenge that must be settled."

"Have they known scorn like youFive cellars down?"

"Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays."

"But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it."

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
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"Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student."

"I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil."

"Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had."

"I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?"

"One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed."

"So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me."

"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."
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