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'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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The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.
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The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.
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I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell.
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Those who are late will be punished by life itself.
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I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
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No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
