John Barton Quotes
I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
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The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
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I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.
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I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.
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Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.
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When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.
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Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.
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The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at 'Frontline' is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. It requires us to constantly seek untold stories and to give our producers and reporters the time and resources to dig into them deeply.
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I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.
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I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.
