John Sladek Quotes
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend - and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective.
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Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.
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In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
