John Mahoney Quotes

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

John Mahoney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 20, 1940 - February 4, 2018

Topics

MarriageFearRelationshipParents

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

Anderson Cooper

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So when I realised I could sing for a living - do what I loved and be paid for it - I thought, 'This is unbelievable. Unbelievable!' And that feeling has never left me.

Tom Jones

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I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

NeverPlannedSomethingWholeJust

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur

ScienceThingsOnlyAppliedSciences

We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

Jaye Davidson

MotherChildrenWorldBlackThree

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

Jayson Blair

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My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

Anthony Edwards

FamilyPerfectPersonMeetHuman

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

William Hazlitt

BornHardHonestPoliticianWhoAny

I didn't know I was the first woman to have won three world titles, but hey, that's awesome!

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

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Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

Tippi Hedren

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All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

TruthMenWishSideFew

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

Martha Reeves

LiveFoodEnoughYouWantPoor

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