John Stossel Quotes
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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When you constantly revisit things, it's hard to know if you're freezing in time or if you're a brilliant adult who's working through it. I think about that in therapy, talking about the same things over and over again.
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I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.
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When you want to win, and you want to go to work every day, you want to work with high character people; you want to work with classy people.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?
