John Malkovich Quotes
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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Everything is designed to help you sell out.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.
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Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.
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Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name are Ma, my dad's is Lu, and my sister's is Ma.
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In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.
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If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
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Similarly, individual acts of aristocratic generosity do not eliminate pauperism; they perpetuate it.
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I had grown up during a time when Notre Dame football was held in the highest esteem. I listened to all of the games on the radio.
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I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn't want to portray them in the most glowing colours.
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Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
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If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
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Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
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There are so many people who just want a flashy object in front of their eyes and don't want to think at all; I find that disturbing.
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Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?
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Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.
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Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.
