John Calvin Quotes
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
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The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.
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Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.
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I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
