Winston Groom Quotes
So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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I want to look good when people see me.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.
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Had I found the back of the net it would have been a double satisfaction but I've scored many goals and the important thing was for me to play well.
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If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
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If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.
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Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.
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Elijah looks angelic but his beauty of spirit is what makes his Frodo leap out of the screen. Unalloyed goodness is one of the most difficult attributes to act.
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I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
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To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape policies that will serve the American people, keep them safe, keep our economy growing, put people back to work.
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Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I’ve died but I opened my eyes again.
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I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.
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Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.
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If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.
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It is a fact that the US defence budget is larger than the defence budgets of all other countries taken together. This is why I understand the US President when he says that his NATO allies should take over part of this burden. It is a pragmatic and understandable approach.
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So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.
