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.
Carlo Ponti -
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.
Ted Ligety -
I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
Malcolm X -
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.
Mahershala Ali -
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Ted Turner -
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.
Ed Markey
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
Wale -
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
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.
Nathan Fillion -
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.
Eddie Trunk -
Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
Umberto Eco
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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.
Irwin Redlener -
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.
Dan Jenkins -
Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.
Indra Devi -
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.
Jack Dee -
Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.
Otto Schily -
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
Quintilian
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I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
Gary Cooper -
The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.
Kaitlin Doubleday -
Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.
Margaret Atwood -
It's time to pull the bandage off America's foreclosure problem. The economy is ready to emerge from its recent dark period, but to make it happen soon we need to speed the resolution of millions of troubled home loans. Six years have passed since the crisis began, yet instead of accelerating, foreclosures have slowed.
Mark Zandi -
Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.
John Clayton