John Hurt Quotes
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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I love collaborating with different people.
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The business of America is business.
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.
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Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
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If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.
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An anti-abortion conference goer says, 'Well, don't you believe that life begins at inception?' I say, 'No. I believe that life begins when you mind your own fucking business!'
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When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.
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I did a lot of musicals when I was younger. And then I went to Northwestern University, and I did more musicals. I went on to do more work in Chicago, and then while I was in college, I got flown out to Los Angeles to do a screen test for 'Back to the Future.' When I got to Los Angeles, I was like, 'Hmmm, this is different.'
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A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.
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I've had the big ups and the big downs.
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The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
