John Key Quotes
If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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I started out doing musicals.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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I don't know if I've got the capacity for all of the creativity that I want to put out there, which is annoying and frustrating - it's kinda like torture.
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A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.
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I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.
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I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.
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Some of the characters that I played as a kid were rebellious teenagers, and people would see those performances and project a particular image onto me. And 90 percent of the time, I would do everything I could to live up to that sort of image and be that individual.
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If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.
