John C. Reilly Quotes
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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I really like the group tour better than going it alone. First of all, it kind of takes the pressure off a little. I'm not a naturally extroverted person. But I also like it because it brings in new fans. For example, someone who really loves Aprilynne Pike's books might pick up mine and vice versa.
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I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
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Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.
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It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.
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Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
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Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
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Κέρδιστον εὖ φρονοῦντα μὴ φρονεῖν δοκεῖν.
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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
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In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and civilian targets.
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Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.
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In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.
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In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.
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I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.
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I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with.
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Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated.
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The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band.
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Really if you look at my filmography, there's something for everyone!
