John Malkovich Quotes
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.
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Before I changed my diet, every time I ate, my torso would feel burning hot, and the areas around my lymph nodes would really ache.
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There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.
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After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for them and do publicity for free just because I like a book. Some people think of it as hubris or careerism, but I love to champion books. You can't use your whole sphere of influence just to help yourself.
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The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington - not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.
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If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
