John Slattery Quotes
I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.
Quotes to Explore
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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Life with three daughters can be nerve-wracking, but it's amazing to be loved by so many different women.
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I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.
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The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, 'What does this have to do with me, with life as I know it?' That's the question answered by all these books about how Proust was actually a neuroscientist or how Proust can teach you emotional intelligence.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.
