John Cullum Quotes
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills.
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I don't like allegories.
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Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.
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My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.
