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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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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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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.
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What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.
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I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
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I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
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Women in the 1950s were so much sexier. That's what I aspire to look like.
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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.
