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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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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Squelching debate by branding it un-American is dishonest, dangerous, and, in itself, hateful.
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Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the beginning of the extermination of the Jews. That's why my family left Germany in 1938.
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After moving to California, I decided to go back to school and get an education on various aspects of the entertainment industry.
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I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.
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Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
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I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.
