John Goodman Quotes
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.
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The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.
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I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.
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I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
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I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.
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What, in substance, both the Esquimaux wizards and the Louisiana swamp-priests had chanted to their kindred idols was something very like this: the word-divisions being guessed at from traditional breaks in the phrase as chanted aloud: 'Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.' … 'In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.' .
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She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.
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The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
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A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.
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I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smack people in the face and say, 'Wake up!'
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
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I stay in contact with my castmates from 'Atlanta' almost every day.
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Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
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I'll always try to follow my heart into things I love, and modelling is not something I'm dreaming of pursuing forever.
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Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.
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As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.
