Casey Affleck Quotes

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

Casey Affleck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 12, 1975

Topics

CulturePeopleThinkOwnershipYoung

If you like big government, move to Massachusetts.

Joe Miller

GovernmentYouBigMoveLike

I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space.

John Burnside

WorkSpaceThinkWhyNeverBorders

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

Joel Kinnaman

RelationshipMindBodyNeuroscience

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

Max Nordau

RespectMyselfMeTroubleOthers

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

Robert Lanza

NatureScienceBeyondProtectFailed

There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

Michael Eric Dyson

MoneyPeopleClothesDarkWrongWho

I'm happy to be busy. I'm happy to have a wonderful family.

John Williams

FamilyHappyBusyWonderful

I was voted 'most shy' in seventh grade! Can you even believe it?

Su-chin Pak

BelieveYouShyEvenMostGrade

I say don't overreact; cool your jets. Focus on things that you can control: your business, your employees' welfare, your guests, and the quality of the product that you dish up. Do that, keep your chin down, pay attention to business, and the sun will come up tomorrow. That's the way I figure it.

Steve Wynn

BusinessFocusQualityTomorrowSun

Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.

Russell Johnson

TimeLongKnowLong TimeThirty

This will sound funny coming out of my mouth, but I like to play characters that have an intelligence. It doesn't matter if it's a physical intelligence or emotional intelligence.

Jon Hamm

FunnyIntelligenceMouthPlayMatter

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

Don Shula

FootballTeamGameThinkingWinner

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