John Malkovich Quotes
Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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All these countries like Holland and Scotland, they create their own problems. They are always complaining, but they don't solve anything. Don't look at what you don't have; look at what you can create.
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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
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Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and still insisting that improvement ... is always a real possibility.
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Eventually I want to re-do this to make it a family home.
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Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.
