John Corey Whaley Quotes
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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I'm currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so mind-blowingly spectacular that he has no other choice but to agree to do it! Wish me luck.
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There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.
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I know when I left the game, I could have played more. There is no question. I think I could have played at a very high level, too. But I could not play the way everyone wanted me to play. And I was not willing to compromise what I felt was a standard that I had established in this league and, particularly, for our fans at home.
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In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.
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The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.
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I'm a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.
