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.

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

  

  Pablo Sandoval
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• '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
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• 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
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• It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

  

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

  

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

  

  Fernando Pessoa
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• 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
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• Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

  

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

  

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

  

  Ashley Scott
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• 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've tried Botox, I've tried them all. I'm definitely not one of those people who says, 'You shouldn't do this.' Everyone can individually do what they want. For all time women have wanted to, for the most part, look their best. It's just that what we have available to us today is what it is today and if you want to take advantage of it, yeah.

  

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• It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.

  

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

  

  Johnny Knoxville
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Obsessed