John Chrysostom Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.
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I'm on my version of the protein diet, but there ain't no protein in it. It's a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers.
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My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
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For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.
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The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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There is no such thing as the Shadow Cabinet. It is purely a Press term. The Prime Minister is by no means bound to include the members of the Shadow Cabinet in his Cabinet, or even in the Government. I myself left several out.
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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
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Harry Dresden: Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.
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A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.
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No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
