John Malkovich Quotes
I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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To truly launch a great product, you need partners. Channel and marketing partners share in your success and share in the costs of reaching your target audience.
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I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.
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Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you want.
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Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks.
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I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
