John Stossel Quotes
The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?
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I've never been in an acting class in my life.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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Of all the characters I've played, I think I have more in common with that guy than with Reilly: Ace of Spies', referring to Carl Fitzgerald in Death in Brunswick.
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Finally a Spanish girl can play on grass.
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It's surprisingly hard to play a vampire and feel believable. I mean, you want to be able to at least believe yourself.
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Abolish competition and replace it with association.
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The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
