Ralph Macchio Quotes
There's little that compares with the thrill of a hit major motion picture experience.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.
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It might be quite boring if you did something and thought it was perfect.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.
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Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.
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Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.
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I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.
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There's little that compares with the thrill of a hit major motion picture experience.
