John Rampton Quotes
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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I like action more than anything touchy-feely.
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I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.
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I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that next step - of making it, of a rite of passage.
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People never remember but the computer never forgets. (p. 69)
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We all remember the people who won the World Series and not the guy who struck out.
