John Skipper Quotes
Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
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Nobody smolders in real life.
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I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.
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TV's been good to me.
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Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.
