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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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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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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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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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope and finishes off his opponent - that's what a comic has.
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I don't need to impress children.
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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It’s the team success I’m going to remember.
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I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A.
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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.
