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 can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
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I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, vain or uptight or mean to people.' People have a sense of who you may be because of the job you do. That's unfair judgment.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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What if there was an eBay of enterprise applications? What if there was an iTunes music store of enterprise applications? We call that the AppExchange.
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No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
