John B. Larson Quotes
As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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It was the combination of hard work and a hand up that allowed me to become one of the first women to fly in combat missions and achieve my American Dream.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
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I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here.
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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For me, conscious parenting is staying attuned to your child, being really open and in the moment. It means staying as present as possible in your own breath for the betterment of your whole family.
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Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.
