John Allison Quotes
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I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
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I think Jesus was about bringing people together and connecting people in love, hanging out with the people who other people didn't want to hang out with. Spending time with the worst of the worst because He knew those are the people who needed Him most.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
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If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.
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It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
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My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.
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I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.
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You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
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You find me offensive? I find you offensive, for finding me offensive.
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Art is man’s metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem.
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Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?
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Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
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I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.
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People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
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Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw.
