John Travolta Quotes

I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.

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• A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • High
  • Hope

• What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Better

• 'That’s me,' he said, motioning to the robot. 'That’s all of us. We prattle about free will, but we’re nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.'

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Free

• I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas 'are' funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Funny

• Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate.

  

  Andrew von Eschenbach
  • Past

• It's amazing how far you can get into a plot before you figure out what you're doing.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Amazing

• When you're on tour, you're trying to get the crowd involved and really sing and perform to them. When you're going to write and be in the studio, it's like, 'Now I have to think about me.' That's the mind-set you have to work with.

  

  Kris Allen
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Trying

• I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Proud
  • Violence
  • Care

• I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

  

  Kyra Sedgwick
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole thug thing was an act - it was silly and dumb. He was a complete gentleman and one of the kindest men I've ever met.

  

  Lori Petty
  • World
  • Men
  • Silly

• I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • Comedy

• It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • World
  • Respect
  • Goals

• A really first-class company uses really fine stationery.

  

  Letitia Baldrige

• I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

  

  Chris Jericho
  • Writing

• The vision people have of a director is completely flawed - someone with a crystalline vision of everything they're going to do. How boring would that be? It's a creative and collaborative process.

  

  Colm McCarthy
  • People
  • Vision

• When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

• I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games.

  

  Frank Lampard

• Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.

  

  John Doolittle
  • Confidence
  • Thanks

• Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Action

• My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters most is human contact. The great mys- tery of music making requires real friendship among those who work together. Every member of the orchestra knows I am with him and her in my heart.

  

  Carlo Maria Giulini
  • Music
  • Friendship
  • Making

• Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • People
  • Think
  • Perfectionist

• Abortion is a blessing.

  

  Anne Nicol Gaylor
  • Blessing
  • Abortion

• When someone beats a rug with a stick, he is not beating the rug – his aim is to get rid of the dust. Your inward is full of dust from the veil of ‘I’-ness, and that dust will not leave all at once. With every cruelty and every blow, it departs little by little from the heart’s face, sometimes in sleep and sometimes in wakefulness.

  

  Rumi
  • Leave
  • Dust
  • Inward

• I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.

  

  John Travolta
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