John Rampton Quotes
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I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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Making music is fantastic.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?
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When I am not working, my family are the most important.
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Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute. In fifty years we shall be ninety-two years old. We intend to work rather hard during those fifty years and accumulate enough to live on without working any more for the next ten years, for we have determined to die at the age of one hundred and two.
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I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.
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Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
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I find in most circumstances, people leave bosses, not companies.
