John D. MacDonald Quotes
Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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You were born as the one you are.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.
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The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.
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When Rose McDermott, a professor of political science at Brown University, got divorced two years ago, she noticed that a cluster of her friends were splitting up at around the same time.
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For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.
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We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.
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Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing... and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.
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Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.
