John Barton Quotes
I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I still keep my accent.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.
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When I grew up, I never – I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.
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It is really awful to be filming and not know if you can pay everybody.
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That’s one thing about these religious boys-they reckon that if they are on God’s side, then the enemy must be on the devil’s, and so they have no qualms about giving it to ’em hot and strong.
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I don't like talking about myself.
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Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.
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I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.
