John Goodman Quotes
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I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
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I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.
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You can only be a monster if people let you be a monster.
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He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
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It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.
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The most fascinating part is how fashion just attracts all these social rejects, if you will, from around the world, encourages individuality. They're the people who make the industry tick.
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What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.
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Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.
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Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
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There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
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Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it's weird.
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It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
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The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
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If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It’s better to live somehow than not at all.
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No actor in the world started off at the top.
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There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives-or at least more balanced lives.
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Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
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Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.
