Johnny Colt Quotes
Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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It's easy to get swept up in the trappings of that sort of lifestyle, but I've been doing it for long enough that I know how easy it is to fall victim to that sort of arrogance and cockiness that celebrity culture can bring about, in young men especially.
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The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes.
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Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.
