John Roy Anderson Quotes
When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
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When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.
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My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.
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Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music.
