John M. McHugh Quotes
My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.
Quotes to Explore
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I think that men's clothing should be functional. If there's a rip in his jeans, it should be because he was out working, not because he ripped them so they looked cool. It's even better if they're ripped because he got in a fight.
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Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think.
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I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
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Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'
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My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.
