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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For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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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.
