Galveston Giant (John Arthur Johnson) Quotes
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
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I'm going for something very raw and organic.
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Felt that if I ran away with the others I would leave with her something of mine that she would never give back.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I did some writing for that movie. The remake of Planet of the Apes. I didn't write the script. But I wrote some lines that they ended up... not using. ... I wrote one line. I thought it would've been perfect. I don't know if anyone saw the movie. It's the scene where the ape general comes in. And they're trying to decide if they should attack right there, or wait until a little later. And I wrote: "Man these bananas are good!" But they didn't use it. I did all of that research.
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I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.
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Don't let your dreams be dreams.
