John Bytheway Quotes
One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.
Quotes to Explore
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.
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I don't think it's a healthy thing in your personal life to go around with that never-sure attitude.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.
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I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!
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One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.
