Chicken John ("Chicken" John Rinaldi) Quotes
I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
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But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.
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My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.
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Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.
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My dad always told me: 'Stop and look back and appreciate what you've done; stop and smell the flowers.'
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I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
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I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.
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The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
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He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
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I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.
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Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new Universal Soldier. You cant rest on your laurels; youve got to keep improving.
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How much blood makes a 'bloodbath'?
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I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
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The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.
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I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.
