John Travolta Quotes
You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
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I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.
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The Marine Aquarium Council really wants us to keep the coral and the fish safe. They are not saying it is bad to have an aquarium in your house, just that you should make sure when you buy fish for your aquarium... they have been Marine Aquarium Council-certified.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.
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A feeling of loss of control over your own life and a nagging feeling of “What am I missing?”
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You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.
