John Hope Quotes
We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.
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All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.
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I've always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.
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We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.