John C. Reilly Quotes
God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.
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What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.
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God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
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I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music.
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God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
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God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.
