John D. Voelker Quotes
Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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My party is committed to a federation.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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You can get beat any day.
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In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
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We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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I dance. I don't really do anything else.
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We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.
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Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the National character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.
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Music is Magic. Magic is Life...
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Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.
