Johnny Knoxville (Philip John Clapp) Quotes

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

Johnny Knoxville

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• As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • Things Happen

• 'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Sleep
  • Study
  • Curiosity

• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• I gather most people don't remember that when the U.S. Open first went to Pebble Beach in 1972, a big deal was made of the Open going to a public course for the first time.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Time
  • Remember

• Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Mistake
  • Moment
  • Glamorous

• We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sky

• People don't know much about what's going on on the ground in Iraq: what you see in the media is heavily censored.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • People

• We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us.

  

  Benjamin F. Wade
  • Political
  • Connection

• 'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Science

• My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in my life, almost to a delusional degree.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Dream

• At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

  

  Jane D. Hull
  • Success
  • Parents
  • Positive

• I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • World
  • School
  • High

• I like romanticizing romance.

  

  Ansel Elgort

• The idea of a 'happening' is that there is little distance between the viewer and it, whatever 'it' is. It's an experience that's on-going and evolving.

  

  Doug Aitken
  • Experience
  • Distance

• My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

  

  Ashley Scott
  • Character
  • Preparation

• I do not comment on politics, but I see computerization of the election process as good for stability and social harmony.

  

  Andrew Tan
  • Good

• I remember when Heath Ledger talked about playing the Joker... I always used to look out of the side of my eye, going, 'Yeah, actors.' But there really is a darkness when you are playing someone psychotic - you have to go there mentally.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Joker

• What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people, so that it's creating better jobs, so that we are strengthening protections for workers, so that we are addressing some of the environmental challenges that come with rapid growth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Stress
  • Illness
  • Number

• I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Country

• I decided to take a leap of faith and go into business for myself. I'm scared to death!

  

  Kam Williams
  • Business
  • Death
  • Faith

• I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

  

  Johnny Knoxville
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Obsessed