John Zimmer Quotes
The times in my life I've felt the most alive is when I'm having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
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When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
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As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
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I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal that they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.
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I used to cuss in my tweets, and now I don't.
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I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.
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No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
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It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.
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I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.
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I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly.
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I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.
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Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
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I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.
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I don't have any phobias per se, but both tight and vast spaces tend to make me nervous after a prolonged time.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
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The times in my life I've felt the most alive is when I'm having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.
