John Wilson Quotes
Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
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My tomb shall bless and speak to the needs of my devotees.
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Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values-inexperienceable-which we serve.
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I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.
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I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.
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Respecting people is an important part of life, whether it's the person doing janitorial work or the person above you. It doesn't matter who you are: I'm going to respect you.
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Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.
