"I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power."

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"I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power."

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"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."

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"A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air."

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"People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power."

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"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!"

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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

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"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."

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"Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible."

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"Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power."

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"Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare."

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