Jake Johnson Quotes
I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.
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I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.
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Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst Of the frailties and shortcomings of the person.
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There is no question that Hannity is a conservative. But I can tell you from personal experience after having worked with O'Reilly for years now, you never know where he is going to come out on an issue. He definitely leans right when it comes to certain social, traditional value issues, but he's all over the board on certain other issues.
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A guy who didn’t have the guts to run for president. Little Michael. He doesn’t know anything about me. But he never had the guts to run. He probably wished he did but he didn’t. He spent millions of dollars on polling but he was missing one thing: guts. Little Michael.
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I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.
