John Callahan Quotes
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.
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I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.
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Slice Mango - something that, you know, is a phenomenal drink, but mango is not a flavour that is easily liked by many people in the West. People in Latin America like it. But we do a lot of Mango in India.
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When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.
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If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.
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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
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To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.
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Conduct a rigorous evaluation of the system's security features.
