Ralph Macchio Quotes
I think one of the reasons 'The Karate Kid' film has stood the test of time, aside from 'Get him a body bag,' 'Sweep the leg,' catching flies with chopsticks, all of that stuff that's become pop culture, is that it worked on a human level.
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
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When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.
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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
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It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
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I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
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Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.
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It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong.
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There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
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If anybody accuses me of being rich, I give it back to them because I had a poor economical background. I worked my way up, and I am an exemplary citizen, and I always do what is good for my nation.
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I think they are a very dangerous basketball team, a team that could create a lot of problems.
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Whenever I think of this attack, my stomach turns over.
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I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.
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I think one of the reasons 'The Karate Kid' film has stood the test of time, aside from 'Get him a body bag,' 'Sweep the leg,' catching flies with chopsticks, all of that stuff that's become pop culture, is that it worked on a human level.
