John Dewey Quotes
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I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.
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My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.
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I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.
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I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
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My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.
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Every woman looks good in a flamenco dress.
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A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
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I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.
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We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil. (Actually, of course, a writer may be just as sentimental in laying undue emphasis on sexual crimes as on dying mothers: sentimental, like scientific, is an adjective that relates to method, not to matter.)
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I'm big on what's in good taste.
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He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them.
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No man's credit is as good as his money.
