John Goodman Quotes

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• The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Why
  • True
  • Free

• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

  Warren Giles
  • School
  • Friends
  • Mother

• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Real
  • Rich
  • Poor

• What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Star
  • Really
  • Prince

• I like doing my own stunts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Doing
  • My Own

• You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Like
  • Embrace
  • Museum

• I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Science

• I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Tree

• Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • World
  • Writing
  • Working

• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• No one likes getting hit. It's a normal thing... I used to make up excuses when the coach would ask me to get in the ring. I'd say I forgot my mouthpiece, or I'd say I had a headache or something.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Say
  • Coach
  • Excuses

• We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Race
  • San Francisco

• We trolls say: 'Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Night
  • Trolls

• History, geography and future bind us. Let no one separate us. Together, we can create pillars of mutual respect that will support the common good for generations to come.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Good
  • Together
  • History

• It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • What If

• Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Country
  • Moral
  • Sorry

• To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Forever

• I was never the class clown, and I've no idea where the comedy came from.

  

  Jasper Carrott
  • Comedy

• As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • People
  • Life
  • Boy

• Oops! Sorry! I heard someone say 'Roar' so it’s kinda went for it.

  

  John Goodman
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