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John C. Reilly Quotes

I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: May 24, 1965

Topics

Love People Me World Name Mission

Come on, come on! And there'll be no turning back! You were only killing time and it can kill you right back. Come on, come on! It's time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Time You Lose Back Burn Nothing

Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and turn this way or that, and identifies them, like a signature, though it lurks far deeper than their style, or their voice or other telltale antics?

Style Voice Way Hidden Secret Turn

Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.

Success Failure Great Time You Go

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.

Design More Economy Opening Bell

My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed enough to be able to share my music with the world, and what that has done for me. Despite all of that, I always want people to listen to my music and be able to relate to it as well as to me.

Life Music People Me Blessed World

For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

Change Growth Business Fun Me You

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

Opinions You Young Still Views

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

Christian Audigier

Me Ideas You Bad Worst Mean

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

Water Clean Water Clean Imagine

As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.

Family Red Mom Pressure Hell White

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Truth History Poetry Than Vital

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Good Bad Cause Obstinacy Constancy

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