Josh McDowell Quotes
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.
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My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.
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My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.
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My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
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These are very desperate conditions that we're in now. These are the wrong conditions for the use of fireworks of any kind under any circumstances.
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Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.
