John Travolta Quotes
The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?
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My time is focused on family and work. I need to find a way to spend more time with my friends - and cycling.
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There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.
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People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
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The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.
