John Curran Quotes
I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
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While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test.
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Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.
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When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
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In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.
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I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.
