John Travolta Quotes
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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Curbing pollution and global warming takes a global cooperative mindset. Development aid needs to be rethought in this context.
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Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.
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Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.
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I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.
