John R. Allen Quotes
I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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I'm the Imelda Marcos of sunglasses.... Very sensitive eyes to light. If somebody takes my photograph, I will see the flash for the rest of the day. My right eye swells up. I've a blockage there, so that my eyes go red a lot. So it's part vanity, it's part privacy and part sensitivity.
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There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.
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I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.
