John Foster Quotes
There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.
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It's an incredible feeling, 110,000 people energy at that level. What I realized from watching the first day of competition was that athletes that got excited and happy and got the fans into it and clapping, they did better. The athletes that took it too seriously, they didn't do as well as they'd hoped.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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The practice of pumping up before the scene, especially if you've got your shirt off, most actors will do that.
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Enabling people to make and receive phone calls during flight demonstrated the flexibility of a high-speed connectivity system. We allowed our guests to make calls to the ground while we flew over international waters.
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There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.
