John Chamberlain Quotes
I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
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I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
