John Hurt Quotes
Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
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I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.
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I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
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Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
