Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (John Denver) Quotes

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.

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• I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.

  

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• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  

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• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

  

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• I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.

  

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• I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

  

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• My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

  

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• A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

  

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• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

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• We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.

  

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• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

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• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

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• I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

  

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• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

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• Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'

  

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• The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.

  

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• I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.

  

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• Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

  

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• And since the day I left Milwaukee,Lyncheburg and Bourbon, FranceBeen makin' a fool out of folksJust like you,And helpin' white people dance.I am medicine and I am poison.I can help you up or make you fall.You had some of the best timesYou'll never remember with me...Alcohol.

  

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• I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

  

  Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
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