"If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that."
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"If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent."
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"It’s not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself."
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"Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem."
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"Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious."
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"Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect."
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"Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects."
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"On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it."
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"Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease."
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"What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity."
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"kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both."
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"I think it's absurd to talk about - one time you were outside the system, now you are in the system - no, we fight, the cause of the fight is because the system is bad that we can't get out of it."
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"I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect."
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