John Britton Quotes
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I would like to enlighten people.
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Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.
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Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated.
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Jack: pointing a pistol at Bob's trousers I'm going to blow your brains out.
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He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to die any death you may please to mention rather than give occasion for the least impeachment of his integrity. He is an honourable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.
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Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.
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I'm technologically challenged, so I finally hooked up Bluetooth in my truck so I can talk going down the road.
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For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.
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When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously.
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Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I'm a pretty pure conservative. So that's a potential of his leadership.
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The judgements about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of a mass destruction - WMD - were presented with a certainty that was not justified.
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James Joyce actually is rewarding you in all of these incredible ways.
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It's really interesting to go back to '93 or '94 and listen to that music, like the I'll Lead You Home record.
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Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say, Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.
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A gene that promotes nurturing behavior postcopulation could... spread throughout the population, to the extent that the offspring of people with the nurturing gene fare better, as a group, in the competition for resources and mates.
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In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.
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Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)
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The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
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They're likely to win, because the courts are increasingly interpreting advertising speech as something that's covered by the First Amendment.
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Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.
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You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.
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Every place it's been tried, the federal courts have thrown it out.
