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John Walters Quotes

It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: July 11, 1939 - July 30, 2001

Topics

Work Problem Country President Serve

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

Work Never Out Used Work Out Guys

I've never had the luxury - or the nightmare - of having something just blow up and be this huge success and then have everything thrown at you. Being 'the best friend' lessens the responsibility, 'cause I can still go do another movie after something that doesn't do well.

Success Friend Responsibility Best

The government should not do everything for everybody all the time, but it should provide basic services to everyone who needs them. Education ought not be contingent on income or where you live. Neither should health.

Education Live Health Time You

You can tell on-stage when a joke's starting to lose its pop. It doesn't mean people don't want to hear it anymore; it means I don't want to do it anymore. Because I want to move on to something that has a knee-jerk reaction just like you get when you tell somebody a joke that they've never heard.

People You Lose Move On Want Never

But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Myself Challenge Past Yourself Step

Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

Image Successful Star Who Movie Star

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

Funny Me Think Exciting Just

A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.

Style Interesting Country Only Idea

I believe in a progressive tax structure that fairly distributes the costs of government in a way that those of us fortunate to have more, carry more of the burden.

Government Believe Tax Burden Way

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

Good Think Better Good Person You

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Die Why Reason Reply Make

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Thomas Jefferson

Education Darkness Clouds Mind Must

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