John Kay Quotes
The city, Hollywood and the entertainment industry, it was sort of dehumanizing.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.
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We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
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Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
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I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
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I do tend to overdo everything.
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However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.
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I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.
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My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.
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In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
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No more free steps to heaven.
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Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.
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People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.
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The city, Hollywood and the entertainment industry, it was sort of dehumanizing.
