John D. Voelker Quotes
There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
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My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.
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Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
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It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.
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Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
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You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.
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Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.
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What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this—Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.
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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
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There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer.
