John Malkovich Quotes
Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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We have to look to the well-being of the Lebanese citizens and create prosperity in the country, and you can't create prosperity without stability.
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I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.
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I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
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Why is partying and having a good time bad?
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Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.
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I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'
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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
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I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.
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Now I saw braves hang themselves with amulets, leave tidbits for spirits, and still take an arrow in the neck. I, worshiping nothing and bribing nothing with prayers, rode among an enemy unscathed, scything them like summer wheat.
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In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.
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The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
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If you gaze at a single leaf on a single tree, you do not see the other leaves. If you face the tree with no intention and do not fix your eyes on a single leaf, then you will see all the many leaves. If your mind is preoccupied with one leaf, you do not see the others, if you do not set your attention on one; you will see hundreds and thousands of leaves.
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The pro-American policy is the one that forces oil prices down. The way to do this is to flood the world market with liquid fuel from every source possible.
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Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
