My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.

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Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.

Alec Baldwin

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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.

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Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

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How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.

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carpe-diem humanity children

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

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To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.

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One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

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There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.

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I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

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For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

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ill men

If we were in another country, we would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they’re doing to this country.

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home country children

There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.

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taken country thinking

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

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If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

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[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

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I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.

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Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

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Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

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In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

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Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

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