Winston Groom Quotes
I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
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Ch. 2 Relativity
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
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In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
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Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
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I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I've been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.
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From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.
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Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
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You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
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I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people.
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It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.
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Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.
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How one encounters reality is a choice.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.
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I came to understand that I'm never going to be the perfect mother, but I'm going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.
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I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been.
