John Wooden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.
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I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.
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Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.
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I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
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Many senior policemen put greater emphasis on maintaining 'order' than on upholding the law. In practice that meant failing to uphold the rights of individuals against the rule of the mob.
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We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
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Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
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A healthy friendship is one where you share your true feelings without fearing the end of the relationship. It's also one where you sometimes have to let things that bug you slide. The tough moments will make you wiser about yourself and each other. They will also make you stronger and closer as friends.
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Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
