John Christopher Quotes
The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.
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The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.
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The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
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The time that it takes to make the feature is really contingent on the feature being sort of almost ready-made - so coming to a book is more ready-made. You at least have the story that someone sorted out.
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The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.
