Johnny Knoxville (Philip John Clapp) Quotes

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

Johnny Knoxville

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• Think and grow rich.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Grow

• The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Actor
  • Stage
  • Paper

• You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • World
  • Rock

• Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Life
  • Work
  • Political

• I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • History
  • Violence
  • Laugh

• My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Different
  • Down

• It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• We all get self-centered.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Get
  • Self-centered

• It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Heart
  • Choices
  • Rights

• People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • House
  • Sun
  • Living

• Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Words
  • Single

• We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • War
  • Society
  • Strong

• As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Society
  • Culture

• No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Future
  • Stop
  • Technology

• I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• Telecom was the golden goose which laid the golden egg. The Supreme Court ensured that the golden goose will never lay golden egg again for a little while.

  

  Kapil Sibal

• I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Health

• Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Education

• If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

  

  William Deresiewicz
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Chance

• What was the name of that dog on "Rin Tin Tin"?

  

  Mickey Rivers
  • Funny
  • Names

• I don't know if people really care about my opinion on things or how I come up with things, and maybe that's an insecurity and why we're comedians in the first place, so I think with that you keep doing the material, you keep trying to be funny cause you think that's all you're wanted for.

  

  Nick Thune
  • Funny
  • Opinion
  • Care

• It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

  

  Johnny Knoxville
  • Funny
  • Hurt
  • Watching