John Bunyan Quotes
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.
Quotes to Explore
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
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With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.
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Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. And the wider and more numerous the fissures on the surface, the more the unity is strengthened in the depths.
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Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the 'vanity of vanities' proclaimed by the Preacher.
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I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the drive from Paris down to Antibes and you veer off east in through the Alps and you come into the south of France on the mountain road as opposed to the freeway.
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A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.
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Supporting drama for young people is close to my heart.
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We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what pictures are doing, understanding them, doesn't seem necessarily to give us power over them.
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Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.
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It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.
