John Theodore (Theo Rossi) Quotes

Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.

John Theodore

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• By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Time
  • Job
  • Team

• I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Me

• Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Religious

• It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Day

• I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

  

  Sally Field
  • Real
  • Always
  • Person

• You think that the poor and oppressed people of Bihar will ever forget Lalu Yadav? I am the only one who has done something for them. The people know that. They also know that the rest (of the political class) are useless.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Done
  • Political

• District of Columbia welfare. The welfare work of the District of Columbia is administered by several different boards dealing with charities and various correctional efforts. It would be an improvement if this work were consolidated and placed under the direction of a single commission.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Work
  • Different
  • Single

• I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • People
  • World
  • Airplane

• I love going to karaoke with friends if I'm having a really tough time.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Time
  • Friends

• Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor, and it comes alive in a way that you didn't expect.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • Different

• Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Good
  • God
  • Heartache

• Let's just say I didn't get invited to a lot of frat parties.

  

  Amy Chozick

• Spring is very energising to me.

  

  David Hockney
  • Spring

• It's a hard thing when you've got guns pointed at you, to still stand up for what you believe in. Jimmie Lee and his family did that, and several others.

  

  Keith Stanfield
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Family

• I was in character all the time when I was little.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Time
  • Character

• I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin?

  

  John Wesley
  • Heart
  • Faith
  • Shadow

• A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Time
  • President
  • Right

• You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Mission
  • Madness
  • Quit

• God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.

  

  John Calvin
  • People
  • God
  • Spirit

• People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.

  

  Gene LeBell
  • People
  • Champion
  • Become

• If you put out garbage, you turn people into garbage.

  

  Steven Berkoff
  • People
  • Turn
  • Garbage

• I tend to obsess over my passions.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad

• My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Freedom

• Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.

  

  John Theodore
  • Standing
  • Scars
  • Toughness