John Travolta Quotes
I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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1971-79 was when I shared the stage with my father. We did more than 500 plays together. He was a hard worker, and learning from him was more than a delight. The way he faced challenges and political pressure was a treat to watch.
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All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
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Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
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I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.
