John Clayton Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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I remember when TiVO first came out I was all about TiVo. I came home and that thing was frozen, and I thought 'This is awful. This is the end of the world'. Then I unplugged it, and I plugged it back in, and still frozen. It was paralyzing. I called them. They said, 'Just unplug it longer.' Fixed. But it also taught me I'm an addict.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
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Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.
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My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.
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Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
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That's a nice thing about being a topical standup: you can add in things to keep it fresh.
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Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.
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When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul.
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Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.
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Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.
