John Catsimatidis Quotes
Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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Politicians always do a two-step, depending on what their district politics looks like.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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I love owning my masters.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.
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People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.
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The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
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I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.
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For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
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I mean, you may cause others a spot of bother by your weaknesses, perhaps, but coping with you may possibly increase their strength and sympathy. But if you sin deliberately, even if it seems only against yourself--well--you won't be the only one to suffer. You may even be the one who suffers least.
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It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.
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Mao Zedong's way was to make people crazy. It was like a religious cult.
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A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.
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Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.
