John Howard Quotes
I think I'm seen as trustworthy. I'm seen as having determination and persistence, and I'm seen as having a capacity to reach achievable answers to difficult issues.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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I don't need to impress children.
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House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.
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I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.
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Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?
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I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.
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When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!
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There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it. Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit, or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation, and persistence you can fix this desirable trait irrevocably.
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Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
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When you are insecure, it turns people off. To spend money, people have to give away a part of their security. When they make the transfer of money to you, they have to feel solid; they have to feel they are getting something that will make them more, because they are paying out and becoming less right now. If you are solid and contained and secure, it helps them feel solid, so they transfer their cash more readily.
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I think I'm seen as trustworthy. I'm seen as having determination and persistence, and I'm seen as having a capacity to reach achievable answers to difficult issues.
