John Gavin Quotes
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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I don't believe in regret.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.
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I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!
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By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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I stopped caring what people thought.
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If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.
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Some sciences need mutual support and assistance to develop. The majority of these are physical sciences. Mutual support has almost no use in other disciplines, such as attainment of intuitive knowledge of God or spiritual progress.
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One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
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Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
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You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism. Faith and optimism come from love.
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I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.
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I like keeping music in front of people. I try to sell at shows as much as I can - setting up a distro table and bringing out crates of vinyl and some CDs. That's my favorite way to sell because you're actually face-to-face with the customer.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
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Mexicans are deeply pessimistic that Simpson-Mazzoli can be enforced.
