John C. Reilly Quotes
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
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He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.
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Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
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I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult – that kind of made me nervous.
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If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.
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Beginning now is much better than never beginning at all.
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It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.
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We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden.
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I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films.
