John Goodman Quotes

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

John Goodman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 20, 1952

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The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

John Muir

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I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

Robert Klein

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If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Romney is not funny. When he tries to be, it often comes across as awkward.

Ana Navarro

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Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.

Steven Pinker

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Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.

Robin Wasserman

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Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war.

Ron Dellums

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Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time.

Mitch Kapor

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When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

Jules Verne

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So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Judy Chicago

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I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.

Jason Kilar

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A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

Donald E. Westlake

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