John Young Quotes
Where else can you strip down a car, plow it into other cars driven by people you don't even know, and not get a ticket? ... It's just fun.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.
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The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.
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I like being by myself.
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People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
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I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.
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The world is in his cloak - figures peer out of its folds - mythological figures and snakes and pigs and flowers, naked fauns and heavy-breasted sirens and horses' heads - they sprawl on the flagstones at his feet and peep out from under his arms...
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
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Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
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Where else can you strip down a car, plow it into other cars driven by people you don't even know, and not get a ticket? ... It's just fun.
