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"42 Clint Eastwood Quotes & Sayings

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Born: May 31, 1930 | Actor | Filmmaker | Musician | Politician |
Tomorrow is promised to no one.
Tomorrow Promised One
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There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

Rebel Direction Imitation Deep
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I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Country Employees Gentlemen Important
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They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Heaven Lightning Made Marriages
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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Belt Efforts Firmly Leads
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You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

Against Confident Defensive Feel
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We boil at different degrees.

Boil Degrees Different
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Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Better Change Hands Own
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I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Ahead Believe Forge Pessimism
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There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Again Happy Learn Marriage
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The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Extreme Less Likely Man
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I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Being Reasonable Tried Like
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We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Boxers Knows Longer Never
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It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Control Discipline Influence Lives
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There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Academy Award Best Great
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I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

Anybody Finding Genius Hates
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You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

Ahead Always Best Fighter
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Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
Time Big Days Deal
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Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Believe Dealt Death Fear
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I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.

People Religious Respectful Suits
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Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Aging Enjoy Fun Lay
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I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Learn New Something Time
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I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Age Being Gracefully Important
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The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Pendulum Race Relations Sensitive
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When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

Ask Like See Something
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If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Accurate Around Biography Mind
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You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Always Audiences Characters Effects
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The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

Appealing Becomes Dating Down
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I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Actor Audiences Become Enjoy
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I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

Alone Always Else Everybody
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I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

Advantage Along Breaks Came
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I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.

Always Bad Fall Nice
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If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

Change Person Really Something
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Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Harmful Health Lot Mental
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As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Afraid Doubt Older Out
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If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Discipline Gone Good Music
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The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Animals Childhood Innocence Lot
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Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
Always Biggest Hollywood Plagiarism
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The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

Craving Huge Information Rapid
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Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

About Actor Insecure Know
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Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

Elected Everybody Everything Get
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I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

Average Feelings Guy Maker
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Clint Eastwood Quotes & Sayings