John Mahoney Quotes

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

John Mahoney

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• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

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• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

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• I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

  

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• In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

  

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• I really don't know life without wrestling.

  

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• That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.

  

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• I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.

  

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• Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

  

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• Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

  

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• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  

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• Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

  

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• I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

  

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• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

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• You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

  

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• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

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• Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

  

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• Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.

  

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• I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

  

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• I can enjoy her while she's kind;But when she dances in the wind,And shakes the wings and will not stay,I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd: Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

  

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• Looking back, I can see that my life with David was molded by forces beyond my control and even my understanding. Still, I don't regret trying.

  

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• It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

  

  John Mahoney
  • War
  • Sister