John C. Reilly Quotes
I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.
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It's really fun to be on stage in front of people.
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The music is fun. The big difference performing it live is that we might get a little more heated, not as subdued, we'll stretch things out more. It's how you stay fresh after such a long time in the business.
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love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark
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All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
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I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.
