John C. Reilly Quotes
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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When the book is over, I think of innovative marketing ways to reach to a larger audience. I think wine and cheese book launch parties are a waste.
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The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'
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I write in all sorts of places; it's a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that's my ideal place.
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Everyone seems to have this awareness of Charlie Chaplin because he was a really good businessman while Buster Keaton wasn't.
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When they're good, I like working with new actors.
