Johnny Knoxville (Philip John Clapp) Quotes

I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't.

Johnny Knoxville

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• I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.

  

  Imelda May
  • Money
  • Road
  • Doing

• They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Great
  • You
  • Couple

• Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Think
  • Judge
  • Shoes

• I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Three
  • Train
  • Nervous

• 'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it's kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It's the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Time
  • Theatre
  • Week

• Stop allowing yourself to focus on depressing life circumstances - including focusing on being depressed about your weight. All this negative focus will only lead you to feeling bummed and wanting to pig out. Instead, consciously focus on happy life circumstances you enjoy doing, and create more of them!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Success
  • Goal
  • Success Is

• The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.

  

  Jane Leavy
  • Baseball

• Story is what's most important.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Important
  • Story

• It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Music
  • Light

• Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

  

  Qiu Jin
  • Women
  • Hero
  • Stuff

• The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.

  

  K. Anders Ericsson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Practice

• I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Giving

• The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Jesus
  • Lies
  • Appreciation

• The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • High
  • Bird

• Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.

  

  Galen Strawson
  • Free
  • Mean
  • Responsible

• The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart.

  

  William Cowper
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Son

• There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Confidence
  • Spirit
  • Captivating

• I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Culture
  • Travel
  • Spirit

• Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Irishman
  • Conor Larkin

• I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't.

  

  Johnny Knoxville
  • Spirit
  • Makes
  • Do Things