John Turturro Quotes
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.
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I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
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I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
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I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.
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There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
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I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
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We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.
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'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't have worked any other way. And it turned out to be the first time a fiction film had really been made in a documentary format. I continued to do that, obviously, because it's a fun way to work.
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Mr. Clay, during my whole political life, I have loved and revered as a teacher and leader.
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I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
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When the day's work is over, it's over.
