John Bacon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
I do believe food plays an important role in preparation for the Olympics or any competition.
-
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.'
-
When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
-
My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
-
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
-
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.
-
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.'
-
If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.
-
Animals are completely grounded in their root chakra.
-
Ambition never comes to an end.
-
I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.
-
I've never really been somebody that thinks too much about what I've done.
-
I don't want to repeat myself.
-
If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
-
I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.
-
Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.
-
Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
-
As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.
-
No one has ever committed as much as we have to the process.
