John Cornyn Quotes
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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No adultery is bloodless.
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
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Everything I say is true.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it's very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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The only real difference between shooting 'Firefly' and 'Serenity' was that on 'Serenity,' we had a lot more freedom with time. When you're shooting a television show, you usually have anywhere between six and nine pages of script to shoot a day, and only twelve hours to do it. But with 'Serenity,' we could shoot one scene all day long.
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
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Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.
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When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.
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I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.
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Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
