John Malkovich Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I don't eat red meat.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
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We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.
