John Turturro Quotes

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

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• Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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  • Choice
  • Independence

• Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

  

  Gary Burton
  • People
  • Time
  • Listening

• If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Party
  • Mask

• Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Real
  • High

• I grew up in the church.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Church
  • Grew

• I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • Comedy
  • Conflict
  • Hatred

• This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Art

• I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Peg Bundy

• Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Art
  • Modesty
  • Gentle

• Outside of a couple of times I ran without eating right or being too tired, I always feel great after I run.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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  • Couple
  • Tired

• After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Thing
  • Horrible

• Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Work
  • Hard

• Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People

• Ah what avails the sceptered race,Ah what the form divine!

  

  Walter Savage Landor

• I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

  

  Brian Joseph Burton Broken Bells
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  • Realizing
  • Shame

• If ESPN ever kicked me out the door and I had to get back to coach, I have to stay on top of what's going on.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Door

• I often quote Hitler, who said words to the effect of, "Rulers are fortunate that the people do not think." Politicians know this. Even when the public seems to be upset, the politicians know if they can put on a brave face and ride it out, they generally will.

  

  Ernie Chambers
  • Politicians
  • Ride
  • Hitler

• One of the nice things about being in a band is that you depend on each other for ideas, so it's not all up to me to do everything myself. There's always that fear that you'll run out of stuff. The most difficult part for me is writing lyrics, and that starts to get difficult after you've written, like, 120 songs.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Song

• People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Up
  • Asking

• If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

  

  John Turturro