Joe Mantegna Quotes
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.
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I particularly like Shah Rukh Khan's style. He is very laid back and very comfortable with whatever he carries.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.
