John Krasinski Quotes
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.
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I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.
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Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!
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I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.
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The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.
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Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!
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Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.
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I wish there was an on & off switch for my brain. I think too fucking much.
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Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.
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A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
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Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.
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There can be racism in a system even if a particular episode of injustice is not a manifestation of that racism. Every single thing in the criminal justice system is not a manifestation of racism, but many things are.
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If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
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There are always roles that seem enticing that you can't do because of scheduling.
