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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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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'Step Brothers 2' would have been fun, there's no doubt about it. Maybe someday. Does that idea age? I don't know. It all depends on how the movie ages.
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I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.
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If I could wave a magic wand, I would love for all children around the world to have good, nutritious meals every day.
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I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
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It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.
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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.
