John Cassavetes Quotes
I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.
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To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.
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It's particularly important that we reach out to everybody in our countries, those who feel disaffected, those who feel left behind by globalization and address their concerns in constructive ways as opposed to more destructive ways.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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My only challenge is to entertain. And I accomplish my task better when I myself am entertained by what I am doing. I am very critical of myself, I constantly set the bar higher and higher. I try to surpass myself. That`s all. But I also know how to preserve myself, to not let myself get bedazzled by the smoke and mirrors.
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I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.
