John Green Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
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I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.
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I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.
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You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.
