Joe Carnahan Quotes
I obviously love 'The Grey'; that was a pleasure to make. It was also very difficult. Listen, I love 'Smokin' Aces.' That was a lot of fun to make. Completely different part of your brain, I guess. Some would argue the part that they don't want you to use.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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A lot of comedians are selfish.
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Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.
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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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I obviously love 'The Grey'; that was a pleasure to make. It was also very difficult. Listen, I love 'Smokin' Aces.' That was a lot of fun to make. Completely different part of your brain, I guess. Some would argue the part that they don't want you to use.
