John Corabi Quotes
I had a few friends that were with me before I was in Motley that were there after I was in Motley, and it wasn't that many.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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My hunger is always there.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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No matter how much you've done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this particular tunnel. It's the nature of the beast, and it's a part of what compels us. Every movie is a new lesson you learn making your way through it.
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You have to follow that next step.
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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
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In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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If you look hard enough, you'll find something good about me and say it.
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What I'm saying is that until somebody steps up and actually has a forceful attack on Donald Trump and actually takes him down a notch, Donald Trump is just going to keep plowing through.
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I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.
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I had a few friends that were with me before I was in Motley that were there after I was in Motley, and it wasn't that many.
