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?
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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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.
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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.
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It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.
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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.
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Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.
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We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.
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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.
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Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I like romanticizing romance.
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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.
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My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.
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You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.
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As yet, barbarism inspires the methods, and is the leading star of civilization. We have not ascended to the realm of ideas...
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Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.
