Dwayne Johnson Quotes
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.
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We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.
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I have big hands – I wear either a XXXL or XXL glove. I have a 6-8 wingspan on a 5-11 body – I can dunk. My wingspan allows me to do a lot of things that other people at my height might not be able to do.
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Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.
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I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
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I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
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p. 36
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If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.
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There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.
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I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.
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Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
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The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.
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Working out anchors my day.
