John Carpenter Quotes
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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I'm not a big sports fan.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
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It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
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I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
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I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
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In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.
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Bob Hope: finding some coins tied with string in Jack's trousers When you ask this kid for a loan, and he says his money is tied up, he isn't kidding. This is an obstacle course for pickpockets.
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A psychiatrist today has the power to (1) take a fancy to a woman (2) lead her to take wild treatment as a joke (3) drug and shock her to temporary insanity (4) incarnate [
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The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. We can’t stop here. We must go on. We must take the risks.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
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The challenge is shifting our appreciation: being willing to give up some of dad’s money for more of dad’s love. And, in the process, altering the psyche that makes him lovable.
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Once emotions are set in motion, and men pitted against men along these unspoken lines, you will have the kind of warfare that will split the nation from top to bottom and undo Malaysia. Everybody knows it. I don't have to say it. It is the unspoken word!
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
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I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.
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People don't turn away from an attorney sitting in a wheelchair. If the guy has got the reputation for being the best attorney around, that's who you go with. But in show business, for some reason they're still reluctant to say an attorney or a physician or an interior decorator can be in a chair, or on crutches, or blind or any of the other things.
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We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.
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Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.
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Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup o' tea by the hearth on a cold winter's night. 'Tis the look in yer husband's eyes when ye lay yer first child in his arms. Tis the ache in yer heart when ye watch the light in his eyes dim fer the last time, and know a part o' ye has gone out o' this world with him.
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There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.
