John Paul White Quotes
This was the best - and the worst - decade of my life. I’m not sure I could relive it - but I’d like to believe it’s made me a better person, husband, and father. I’d also like to believe that the next decade will be better for having lived this one. Let’s find out.
Quotes to Explore
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.
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I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
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I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.
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I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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I'd like to see you out in the moonlight.I'd like to kiss you way back in the sticks.I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers.And I'd like to check you for ticks.
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Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.
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I didn't want to act in high school, because I was sick of auditioning for Nickelodeon, Disney mean girls, or the cheerleader.
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I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
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I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
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I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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This was the best - and the worst - decade of my life. I’m not sure I could relive it - but I’d like to believe it’s made me a better person, husband, and father. I’d also like to believe that the next decade will be better for having lived this one. Let’s find out.
