John Goodman Quotes
It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
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I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.
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No matter what I go through today, I need not fear. For God is all-powerful and God is here. I am never separate from the One who created me. There is nothing I can do to make Him turn his face away from me. I am loved, I am cared for, and I am totally safe in the arms of God.
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It's very complicated when you are reorganizing territories under different ministries. We have to get them all together and transfer jurisdictions. It's a bureaucratic slalom course we have to ski through, but it can be done.
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It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
