John Oldham Quotes
We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.
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If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or stupidity - I'm not sure which.
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Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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I listen to the Avett Brothers all the time. I find their music interesting and introspective.
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We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.
