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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I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.
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If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.
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It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.
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I felt very at home in California, but the place is prone to earthquakes, and the one in 1994 scared the life out of me. For months afterwards, I felt that every time I sat down, I should have put on a seatbelt.
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A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
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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.
