John Conyers Quotes
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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I think I've been a great citizen.
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I'm a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you've got to temper it because your fans are there, and they've paid good money to see a show.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
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If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.
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It's not a public matter when you discipline your family.
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
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The nere to the churche, the ferther from God.
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Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.
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The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
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My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders.
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When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.
