John Goodman Quotes
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
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I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.
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You have a choice: Support the woman standing next to you, or compete with her. But if you compete, you're going to be miserable.
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I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
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What we are doing, with the United Nations ' full support, is helping that full majority of Iraqis build what we have here -- a democratic, stable, prosperous and peaceful society.
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Freedom of expression without limits is like a car without brakes.
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I'm John McEnroe-like. I'm coming forward every opportunity I get. My wingspan covers some ground at the net. My serve is OK. I can move it around enough. My groundstrokes are good enough to hang in a rally with a good player. But generally, my goal is to put away a point quickly.
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Silence is safer than speech.
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Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.
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I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.
