Danny Ozark Quotes
What makes Jay Johnstone unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.
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We strivin' for perfection.
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
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I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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People never believe you.
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I love Costco.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons.
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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.
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For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but we all long, I think, to see the plays fleshed out on stage and I'm exactly like that. Yes, I'm not satisfied until I actually see it on stage.
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How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.
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Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.
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What makes Jay Johnstone unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.
