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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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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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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If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.
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The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.
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Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.
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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.
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I’m old enough to feel the way I do. And I know that you are true, it’s just a part of my genes.
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It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!
