John Bacon Quotes

No one has ever committed as much as we have to the process.

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• The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • School
  • She
  • High

• Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • May
  • Remember

• I do believe food plays an important role in preparation for the Olympics or any competition.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Food

• I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Light
  • Band
  • Coffee

• When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Great
  • Sea

• My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Father

• Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

  

  James K. Polk
  • Character
  • True

• I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

  

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.

  

  James Watkins

• Animals are completely grounded in their root chakra.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford

• Ambition never comes to an end.

  

  Kenneth Kaunda
  • Ambition

• I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Remember

• Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

  

  Jim Woodring
  • Time

• Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.

  

  Patty Hearst
  • War

• I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

  

  Bubba Sparxxx
  • People
  • Different
  • Candy

• I've never really been somebody that thinks too much about what I've done.

  

  Peter Uihlein
  • Done

• I don't want to repeat myself.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

• When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Pain
  • Reasons
  • Consolation

• Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.

  

  Dave Kopel
  • Country
  • Simple
  • Fighting

• The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Moments
  • Reason
  • Solutions

• The people that you work with, the organizations that are committed to the same objectives. If they know that you're in it together, and you're working towards the same objectives, and you agree on how to do more with less, you can actually have a greater impact.

  

  Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
  • People
  • Working
  • Committed

• No one has ever committed as much as we have to the process.

  

  John Bacon
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