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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I cannot abide being bored.
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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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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
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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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I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.
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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 directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.
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I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe.
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I think I have that ability to win the ball back quickly when we lose it.
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If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
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Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.
