Johann Lamont Quotes
I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
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I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
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When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.
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I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
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I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
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The woodcut is the most graphic of the printmaking techniques. Its practice demands much technical ability and interest. Kirchner's technical skill made woodcutting easy for him. Thus he came in a spontaneous way through the simplification necessary here to a clear style of representation. We see in his woodcuts, which constantly accompanied his creative work, the formal language of the paintings prefigured.
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I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.
