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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I'm pretty pro-food.
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Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.
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The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation - indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I'm an enthusiast for manned missions.
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Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.
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Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
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It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!
