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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He had noted that with older people. They often try to control younger, more popular and vivacious people; usually due to the fact that they are jealous of the qualities the younger people have and they lack. These inadequacies are disguised with a benign, protective attitude.
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At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.
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You can always argue you're never good enough until you win the Super Bowl. And even then, you're going to lose players, and you're not good enough then, either.
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My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.
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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.
