John Clare Quotes
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
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I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, 'Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.' And I was like, 'Really?' I think she was from Malaysia.
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A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
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When you stop selecting by ability you have to select according to some other inevitably less satisfactory criterion.
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The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.
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Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.
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People often ask me why don't you have a girlfriend. Then I smile and say: I have thousands some just haven't met me yet.
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When trouble haunts me, need I sigh? No, rather smile away despair;
