John Fund Quotes
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?
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I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.
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I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
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When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
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I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.
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I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them.
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The being which has absolute existence, which has never been and will never be without existence, is not in need of an agent.
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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
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Interviewer: You're not known to be a humble man. But I wonder- I think I am actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand.
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Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.
