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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I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.
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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 think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.
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The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.
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When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.
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All of my books now come from readers' ideas.
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'(infuriated)' I'M GONNA WRECK IT!
