John Roos Quotes
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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My health is fine.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.
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A guy out there was meant to be the love of your life, your best friend, your soul mate, the one you can tell your dreams to. He'll brush the hair out of your eyes. Send you flowers when you least expect it. He'll stare at you during the movies, even though he paid $8 to see it. He'll call to say goodnight or just cause he's missing you. He'll look in your eyes and tell you, you're the most beautiful girl in the world, and for the first times in your life, you'll believe it.
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A lot of people have, like, 95 percent of their wealth in bitcoin. Great for them, but I got to be smart.
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A big part of why I wanted to go to college is to meet people and make friends.
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I need to motivate myself to work hard because only I can skate my program.
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People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
