John Cornforth Quotes
The total loss of hearing was a process that lasted more than a decade, but it was sufficiently gradual for me to attend Sydney Boys' High School and to profit from the teaching there.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.
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When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.
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The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.
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I don't exercise - that's something I struggle with.
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If you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.
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The total loss of hearing was a process that lasted more than a decade, but it was sufficiently gradual for me to attend Sydney Boys' High School and to profit from the teaching there.
