John Hughes Quotes
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
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In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.
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A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
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Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.
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My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
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I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'
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I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
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Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
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You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.
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I'm a pleaser. That's my character.
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I turned from my wicked ways and embraced Jesus. The next thing I knew, good times had come my way.
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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
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It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!
