John Wooden Quotes
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
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In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common ground on religious freedom and LGBT issues in Utah - one of the nation's most religious and conservative states - we can do it anywhere in the country.
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I'm not somebody who is genetically gifted when it comes to facial hair.
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I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.
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In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.
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'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.
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Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.
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I tried to do Kwanzaa with my family and was like, 'This sucks. What am I doing this for?' For me, I felt like I was doing it because I was trying to live up to someone else's idea of what 'black' was.
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
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I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight times a week to do a show. It's unlike any other business. It's just lovely. You feel like you're in a family.
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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
