John Grogan Quotes

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.

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• I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Comedy
  • Stories
  • Fearless

• Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • People
  • Community
  • Place

• Spare no expense to save money on this one.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Money
  • Save
  • Expense

• I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Business
  • Find
  • Act

• I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Find
  • Questions
  • Sit

• I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Slavery
  • Scripture

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

  

  Larry King
  • School
  • Ahead
  • Graduated

• Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Men
  • You
  • Liberty

• I want to win football games.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Football
  • Win

• I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Learning
  • Thought

• I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Love
  • Done
  • Fun

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Reading
  • Hands
  • Early

• People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • People
  • Best
  • Politics

• TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

  

  Sally Phillips
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  • Find
  • Difficult

• On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.

  

  Jack Keane
  • High
  • Problem
  • Professional

• The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Find
  • Ignorance
  • News

• I opened the script to the 'The Wall,' and 15 minutes later I was done with it, and I loved the movie and wanted to be part of it.

  

  John Cena
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Wall

• There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Women

• I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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  • World
  • Death

• I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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• I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.

  

  John Grogan
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