John Corey Whaley Quotes
I don't think anyone, no matter what, can find perfect happiness until they understand exactly who they are and how every little thing they do can affect the world around them. I think perfect happiness would be a world where everyone is constantly striving to understand everyone else.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.
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What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.
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Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!
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I didn't intend to become an actor.
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I don't think anyone, no matter what, can find perfect happiness until they understand exactly who they are and how every little thing they do can affect the world around them. I think perfect happiness would be a world where everyone is constantly striving to understand everyone else.
