John Britton Quotes
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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When Ben and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'
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It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
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The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
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The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.
