John Goodman Quotes

I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.

John Goodman

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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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• 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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• I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.

  

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• We know that progress can always be reversed, and that positive change is achieved not through passion alone, but through patient and persistent effort. But we’ve seen things change for the better in this region and around the world because of the effort of ordinary people, together - working together.

  

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• I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

  

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• I don't think people know me at all. At the end of the day, if you see me in sequins and glitter out at a club, you might think that's all there is. But, you know, it's just glitter. My friends who I've known since I was 17 - they know who I am.

  

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• I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.

  

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• When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.

  

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• I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.

  

  John Goodman