John Niven Quotes
I returned from my last L.A. visit to find myself tipping the scales like Homer Simpson when he tries to gain enough weight to qualify as disabled to be allowed to work from home. All I was missing was his kaftan and Fat Guy Hat. So, I decided it was time to diet.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.
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On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
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Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
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Teach for America has helped us understand what works and what doesn't.
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I returned from my last L.A. visit to find myself tipping the scales like Homer Simpson when he tries to gain enough weight to qualify as disabled to be allowed to work from home. All I was missing was his kaftan and Fat Guy Hat. So, I decided it was time to diet.
