John C. Calhoun Quotes
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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I'm a proud family man.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.
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What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.
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For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.
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When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.
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War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.
