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" Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector. "
Peter Coyote
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" My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way. "
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" Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment. "
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" My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I still do, gathering impressions. "
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" When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous. "
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" When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. "
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" People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America. "
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" The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that. "
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Before
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" Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines. "
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" You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it. "
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" Acting is the way I make my living. "
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" Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage. "
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" The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that. "
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" It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy. "
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" I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological. "
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" I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something. "
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" The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship. "
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" I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far. "
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