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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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.
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The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.
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The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.
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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.
