Johnny Weissmuller Quotes
With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
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I'm focused on being the best, making history.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
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The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.
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My signature fragrance would be herbal - basil mixed with rosemary and coriander. Some big stars have got perfume lines that smell really bad. They've got it all wrong.
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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
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Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.
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My record label always says you shouldn't talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can't talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can't talk about money.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.
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I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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One consequence of racism and segregation is that many American whites know little or nothing about the daily lives of African Americans. Black America's least-understood communities are those poor, hyper-segregated places we once called ghettos. These neighborhoods are not far away, but they might as well be on the moon.
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I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be an adult at the age of 8 or 9. I never did kid stuff, so to speak, so I was in many ways ostracized by the other kids. But I did get this other life, so it was a trade-off.
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If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.
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With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
