John Gunther Quotes
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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I'm not radical.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
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Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
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Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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'The Real Housewives of Miami' only shows my life in Miami, and, to be honest, my life is more L.A.
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The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'
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If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right.
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I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.
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It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
