Johnny Weissmuller Quotes
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.
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In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
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I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.
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No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.
