John Dickerson Quotes
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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I think TV shows have usurped films!
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ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
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Chorus: We must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
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I worked in a comic shop for five years, and the amount of titles I could excitedly recommend to teenage girls was pretty abysmal for awhile.
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These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.
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Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
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If Orwell had a chance to write 1984 from the vantage point of 1984 instead of 1948, perhaps he would have seen the class of hackers instead of the proles as a threat to Big Brother's rule.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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In the '80s I started running, staying in shape.
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Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.
