John Quotes

One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

I'm sick of playing romantic leads.

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.

You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul.

High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.

I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice.

I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.

If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.

You eat the burger but you don't want the slaughterhouse next door to where you live.

Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.

As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.

Come, enter into my imagination and see me as I truly am.

As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

It may be that places exist in order that memory itself has a home.

It is very, very hard to do that ballroom dancing and I am going to be nowhere near it. Now if you have a hot dog eating contest, call me.

The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I'm getting hungry thinking about that.

Whether people know it or not, I'm a big nature guy. I like snowboarding, I like fishing, and those are my ways to wind down.

The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.

Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

Ever since I had that interview in which I said I was bisexual it seems twice as many people wave at me in the streets.

Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

I'm a very wealthy man.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

My mantra is if you raise money, don't waste it.

I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.