John Varvatos Quotes
I enjoy looking at old photos of some of my favorite rock icons, but also get inspired from the younger bands that are coming up and really creating their own style, their own image.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.
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Katie Couric is kind of my soulmate.
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The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
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When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.
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The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
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I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.
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It is important to work. It is important for my mind.
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'Life, Love & Hope' is... I'm thinking 'larger picture.' I'm not trying to preach to anyone. We all get lost and caught up in our everyday problems. Your cellphone doesn't work or you got a parking ticket, you had a bad day at work. You can lose sight of the really important things in life; that's what the song is about.
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We're trying to make a movie that's interesting.
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People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls.
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Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
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My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.
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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
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I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!
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I enjoy looking at old photos of some of my favorite rock icons, but also get inspired from the younger bands that are coming up and really creating their own style, their own image.
