John Curran Quotes
I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.
