John Travolta Quotes
I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
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I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
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I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.
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I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.
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If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.
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I went to theater school at Northwestern, and I was quite conservative. Reagan at the time seemed quite revolutionary, or at least a rock star: He was radical and kind of punk rock.
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I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.
