John Glenn Quotes
Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.
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I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
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I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
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I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.
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You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
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I think we could all do better sometimes of not overextending ourselves as much.
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Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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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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I've always strived to be successful, not famous.
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I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.
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Lolla-Wossiky is left like a White man then. Cut off from the land. Ground crunching underfoot. Branches snagging. Roots tripping. Animals running away.
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100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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...to hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.
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Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.
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One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
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First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians.
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Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.
