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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I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
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I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to.
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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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I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.
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I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.
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Even in comedy, I'm always the straight guy, which is okay because that's a skill. But it would be nice to get out of that box.
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There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.
