John Candy Quotes
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
