John Cornforth Quotes
I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.
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Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
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We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
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but it wasn't just about my feelings. The more I got to know you, the more I was certain that you'd do whatever it took to provide for your family. That was important to me. You have to understand that back then, a lot of people our age wanted to change the world. Even though it's a noble idea, I knew I wanted something more traditional. I wanted a family like my parents had, and I wanted to concentrate on my little corner of the world. I wanted someone who wanted to marry a wife and a mother, and someone who would respect my choice.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
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I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children.
