John C. Reilly Quotes
I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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It was so surreal, having my parents hear the President and First Lady saying to me, 'Good to see you again! We're so proud of you. We watched you on the Grammys and were like, 'That's our girl!'
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I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.
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When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'
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The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.
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It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.
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I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.
