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.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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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.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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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.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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I want to win football games.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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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.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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It all started with the most basic level of Uta Hagen, right at the beginning. I'm like, 'Really? I came to grad school; I'm going to do the 'Respect for Acting'?' And I realized the importance of that, because it was really to just get you to get rid of everything. Get rid of everything you've learned and just start from the bottom up.
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I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.
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Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.
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If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.
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You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.
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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.
