John Malkovich Quotes

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

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• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Australia

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Club

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Paradise
  • Reasons
  • Cruel

• As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Need
  • Far

• When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.

  

  Finn Jones
  • School
  • Dark
  • Drama

• But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Today
  • Media

• I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • Sports
  • Entertainment
  • Documentary

• My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

  

  Florence King
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Care
  • Washington

• Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Way
  • Dance
  • Songs

• My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • Hate

• I think what's keeping me making music - the money is great, but I make music for the visibility.

  

  Rashard Bradshaw
  • Great
  • Music
  • Money

• I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Party
  • Creativity

• You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. 'Educated philistines' have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

  

  John Malkovich
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