John C. Reilly Quotes
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
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Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.
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When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.
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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
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I've done a lot of other shows in the U.S. that have been great, but I knew that 'Roadies' was something special. I feel very, very fortunate.
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I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.
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Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.
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I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.
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I am certainly an ought and not a must.
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I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
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I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
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Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?
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I watched Gretzky, I watched Lemieux. Maybe it's the time when you're playing, but for a kid coming into the league, you play the Boston Bruins and you just watched Bobby Orr.
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One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 then, and I went to her salon, but could not afford any of her dresses myself, though I loved them. Miss Carnegie suggested I do a garden in exchange for a coat and dress, and so I designed and planted a garden for her.
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...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start.
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'(infuriated)' I'M GONNA WRECK IT!
