John Templeton Quotes
I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
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The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled.
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I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
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I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.
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Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
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I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
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Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
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I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
