Emilio Estevez Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.”
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“We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.”
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“We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.”
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“Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.”
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“If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.”
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“My father is the Hollywood equivalent of a clean, fillet-brazed frame. My brother is like one of those fat-tubed aluminum Cannondales. I'm more like one of those Taiwanese Masis.”
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“I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.”
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“People come up to me on the street and say, 'Men at Work (1990) is the funniest movie I ever saw in my life'. But, you know, I do have to question how many movies these people have seen.”
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“You don’t choose a life, dad. You live one.”
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“In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?”
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“Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.”
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“I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.”
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“My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.”
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“What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?”
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“We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.”
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“We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there.”
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“I saw a headshot with the name 'Emilio Sheen' printed under it and it looked terrible.”
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“I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.”
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“I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.”
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“Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.”
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“I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.”
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“There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.”
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“Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.”
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“Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.”
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“All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.”
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“By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.”
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“Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.”
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“I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.”
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“What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.”
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