Johnny Colt Quotes
Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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I'm trying to stay as healthy as possible but there's no pressure to be really skinny. No. That's just a bit wrong.
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I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.
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I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?
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Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.
