Rod Steiger Quotes

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To be desired puts you in command. It can be an incredible gift or a malignant weapon.

Rod Steiger
Nothing should be worshipped except accomplishments and courage.

Rod Steiger
Success means controlling your own time. If you can gain control over sixty percent of the time in your life, you are really successful. Time is the most important currency, but once you spend it, man, it is gone.

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Man is cursed with the ambition to be the best hunter in the tribe. When a guy came home to the village covered in blood, there was no argument when he asked for a gourd of water or a piece of ass.

Rod Steiger
Thought is like a snowball: The longer you live, the more it melts.

Rod Steiger
Curiosity will lead you to many little deaths and many little happinesses.

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Too much pleasure, you're destroyed; too much nonpleasure, you're destroyed.

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True freedom can't exist without emotional satisfaction.

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There is a need for tears at the beginning of sorrow; that's the instant release. But to cry and not to gain is complete defeat. You must control the force of terror so it begins to work for you.

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A so-called deficit in your childhood can be an asset as you get older.

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Only those who give you the best can give you the worst.

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The greatest pleasures in the world are exciting, harmless secrets we don't tell anyone.

Rod Steiger